I continued to have comment-spam problems on my personal Drupal site even after enabling captcha challenges.  The Drupal 'spam' module, which is something like spamcop for Drupal, has been quite good so far.  (Only installed it this morning, but I've already seen it block a number of bogus comments.)

http://drupal.org/project/spam

alex

On Dec 15, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Technomage Hawke wrote:

> Steve,
> don't worry about it. the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I agree that CAPTCHAS are inherently evil. I have problems on walmartmoneycard.com. I cannot log in because of the stupid CAPTCHA and it seems that walmart isn't going to do anything about it either.
>
> I am not familiar with drupal at all, so I have no idea what turing tests that it has at its disposal. Are there any other tests that don't involve locking the blind (and deafblind)?
>
> -Eric
>
> On Dec 15, 2010, at 2:46 PM, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:48:03PM -0700, Lisa Kachold wrote:
>>> We simply cannot allow these bots to spam the site; PLUG is an older Drupal
>>> that doesn't include the "human verification" tests.
>>
>> These human verification tests you refer to, often include CAPTCHA.
>> As far as I'm concerned, most CAPTCHA schemes are evil and I say that
>> because blind people who use audio or Braille screen readers can never
>> parse the information displayed in the little pretty pictures they
>> show.  Some audio CAPTCHA drills make for an alternative but then deaf
>> blind users are still excluded.  I don't know aht all human type tests
>> are available in Drupal but I would be most interested in evaluating
>> any of these if PLUG should move to such Drupal versions and wish to
>> implement any of these.
>>
>> Sorry for any whining but just looking out for my rights to equal
>> access. <smile>
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