reCAPTCHA is one of those amazing ideas that makes you say, “gee, why didn’t somebody think of that sooner?”. It accomplishes two objectives in one very clever way.
- Provides a captcha to verify a real person is posting content
- Digitizes books one word at a time by leveraging people power
Adding reCAPTCHA to Wordpress is very easy:
- Sign up for an account at reCAPTCHA
- Get your public / private keys
- Download the plugin for Wordpress
- Install the plugin and active it
- Done!
Using reCAPTCHA frees me from having to authorize every comment before it is posted. I really hate comment spam on the blog and this was the only reliable method. Akismet is wonderfully accurate and combined with reCAPTCHA I have no worries about allowing comments to be posted without my authorization.
It is always good to be able to work on the blog rather than in it.
Perhaps you should write a Mollom plugin for Wordpress ;-)