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.
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Perhaps you should write a Mollom plugin for Wordpress ;-)