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Thursday, 14 June 2007
I CAN HAS SPAM PROTEKSHUN?
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Microsoft Research has developed a new anti-blog-comment-spam tool called Asirra. Instead of trying to figure out letters and numbers, typing them into a box, and hoping you could tell the difference between O and 0, or l and 1, it shows you a mixture of cat and dog pictures. Select all the cats and click the button - if you got it right, you passed.

I've been fighting a running battle against comment spam (and so have the others who use my blog system - at one point, I had to mass-delete about 400 spam comments for someone), and have been thinking of adding a CAPTCHA-type spam preventer to the blog code.

So: Those of you who use my blog system, would you want me to add something like that? And those who read (and comment in) our blogs, would you object to Asirra (or to a CAPTCHA-type verifier in general)?


Posted by godfrey (link)
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Can you customize the symbols? Like make them Daleks or clarions - or bees?
Posted by Karen on 14 Jun 2007 17:28
That would be cute. Daleks and TARDISes!
Posted by Zach on 14 Jun 2007 19:52
Doesn't look like it. They pull random photos from PetFinder (a set of over 2,000,000) so bots can't just memorize which is which.

Posted by Godfrey on 14 Jun 2007 20:44
Use the pet photos. I like that idea much better.
Posted by Kathy Angel on 14 Jun 2007 21:38
I would object to nothing!
Posted by Lisa on 17 Jun 2007 21:01