Comments on: The Best Anti-Comment Spam Filter http://www.geckoandfly.com/2006/07/05/the-best-anti-comment-spam-filter/ Blogger Templates, Make Money Online Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:25:27 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Andy Skelton http://www.geckoandfly.com/2006/07/05/the-best-anti-comment-spam-filter/#comment-456 Andy Skelton Thu, 06 Jul 2006 02:37:28 +0000 http://www.geckoandfly.com/2006/07/05/the-best-anti-comment-spam-filter/#comment-456 <blockquote>I hope that future Wordpress would have this feature come by default, chances are it won’t happen. One of the main reason being is that Wordpress is an Automattic production and so is Akismet.</blockquote> Word verification is unwanted in core WordPress because it is a hassle, it shuts out many people from commenting, there are no person-friendly and machine-proof generators available, and a great deal of today's spam is entered manually anyway. In fact, plugins are better able to deal with the rapid evolution of spam because they can be updated more often than WP core. The decision to leave word verification in the domain of plugins was driven by love for users, not money. :-)

I hope that future Wordpress would have this feature come by default, chances are it won’t happen. One of the main reason being is that Wordpress is an Automattic production and so is Akismet.

Word verification is unwanted in core WordPress because it is a hassle, it shuts out many people from commenting, there are no person-friendly and machine-proof generators available, and a great deal of today’s spam is entered manually anyway. In fact, plugins are better able to deal with the rapid evolution of spam because they can be updated more often than WP core. The decision to leave word verification in the domain of plugins was driven by love for users, not money. :-)

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