Targeting Spam: How to fight against comment spam in your Wordpress Blog!

Targeting Spam > How to fight against comment spam in your Wordpress Blog!

[StudioWordpress] Spam is the word which is a big pain in the you know where. However, we just can’t run away from it as it’s present everywhere, be it e-mail, blog comments, forum or anything which is online and accepts input from the users.

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[Safe & Sound blog] Enter the Letters You See in this Box ”” If You Can See Them: That box of distorted letters is called a CAPTCHA: Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart. CAPTCHAs are meant to prevent robots from spamming or overvoting or whatever it is that computer robots do in their spare time.