Comments - ‘Did you pass math?’ spam killer

The ongoing battle against comment spam continues.

My beloved SpamKarma2 found something missing (or something that it didn’t like), and told me to tell my host to fix some techie setting. … Ha! Fat chance.

Just using Akismet, it let a lot of spam comments through. It stopped a lot, but let through 1 or 2 spams an hour.

Would any user/reader test the new “did you pass math” feature, by making a comment now? (It helpfully, or unhelpfully, excuses, me, the site admin, from its requirements.)

Please note whether it asked you a math problem or not. I guess that might require two comments. … Oddly some users say it did ask a question; others have said it didn’t.

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  1. Targeting Spam on 28 Sep 2006 at 11:10 pm

    Comments - ”˜Did you pass math?’ spam killer

    [Source: politburo diktat 2.0] quoted: My beloved SpamKarma2 found something missing (or something that it didn’t like), and told me to tell my host to fix some techie setting. ”¦ Ha!

Comments

  1. Jillian wrote:

    Did you pass math? :)

    Posted 28 Sep 2006 at 12:31 pm

  2. dorkafork wrote:

    No, sorry. I won’t.

    Posted 28 Sep 2006 at 12:42 pm

  3. dorkafork wrote:

    It doesn’t seem to be on. It didn’t ask me to solve anything.

    Posted 28 Sep 2006 at 12:44 pm

  4. canuckistani wrote:

    This discriminates against the innumerate!

    Posted 28 Sep 2006 at 1:04 pm

  5. tommy wrote:

    you might want to try bad behavior as well.

    http://www.homelandstupidity.us/software/bad-behavior/

    Posted 28 Sep 2006 at 1:19 pm

  6. rbj wrote:

    comment

    Posted 28 Sep 2006 at 1:40 pm

  7. rbj wrote:

    BTW, it asked me to add 0 and 5. These maths sure is hard.

    Posted 28 Sep 2006 at 1:41 pm

  8. canuckistani wrote:

    I was asked to add 9 and 7, which not only discriminates against the innumerate, it also discriminates against the eight-fingered residents of Springfield.

    Posted 28 Sep 2006 at 1:55 pm

  9. JimK wrote:

    Great, now I need to take off my socks to post.

    Posted 28 Sep 2006 at 2:15 pm

  10. dorkafork wrote:

    Ok, I think it’s working now.

    Posted 28 Sep 2006 at 3:43 pm

  11. Mark wrote:

    Math sucks… :)

    Posted 29 Sep 2006 at 10:16 am

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