Just a very short post explaining my recent comment spam problems. If you’ve read the previous entry you’ll no doubt know I went on a two week holiday only to come back to 800 spam messages. Not nice. So I set about trying to do something to stop this. Possible ideas included CAPTCHAs, using the askimet service, but in the end I settled for a solution made by a very clever friend called Neo-Geek. His system entails only a very small checkbox that is automatically ticked when a visitor starts writing but a normal spam bot would leave un-ticked. Simplicity in itself.

I’ve yet to see how this plays out, whether it will stop the spam permanently, but until then, here’s to you Neo. *raises glass*