On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 12:15 PM, Nirav Patel
<olpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One solution to comment spam is to just use recaptcha on anonymous
comments. It'll at least remove bot spam and make it more annoying
for repeat human spammers.
Nirav
I think comments have more value than allowing some spam in some times. In this case removing barriers for people to comment (like captcha, required login etc) gives us more comments. Each barrier reduces the number of valid comments.
Then every now and then the spam comments can easily be removed. I think this will be the 3rd spam cleanup in 5 years, so it's not much of an issue. The spam comments don't even have clickable links in them, so it doesn't matter so much at all.
cheers,