I notice that CAPTCHA is once again being mentioned around the web. WordPress them selves have been talking about using it – which is strange give their strong belief in Akismet. There are several small business marketing sites that are also discussing the subject. I have found that manual editing works fine, but then, I don’t get thousands of comments.
I think it all depends on the type of web site you have. Blogs of course always attracts comments – especially from the robot commenters. If you had a site about medical transcriptionist services, you would probably get none – or very few.
Mention Valentines Day and you would probably get thousands of spam comments – even if your site was only about broken arms or dental health or something minor.
What about a blog about Heavy Equipment Technology, would that suffer from a spam attack – probably not – unless of course it mentioned valentines day.
Believe it or not, all web sites suffer some form of spam. It doesn’t really matter about the genre. If someone else is in your genre, they either compete against you or fail. To compete they need links and links come from comments – here comes the spam.
Do you use captch at all?
