I have Written a post sometime back on Why commenting is important for your blog and how commenting can get you 1000+ feed subscriber in few days. I prefer using Easy comment Firefox addon to easily fill form on any blog I comment.
Though this post is for those blogs, who use Captcha to prevent spam bots comment. Its a good strategy to stop the spam noise on your blog, but for some reason I hate commenting on such blog. A simple reason is , this is something which happened many times when I tried commenting on blogs.
Usually I keep my comment more than 2-3 lines, and I don’t mind filling Captcha, but many time I face this problem even after filling the right captcha.
After writing a meaningful comment and right Captcha when I see such message, I can’t myself hitting the close button.
If you use Captcha for comment form , One simple thing which can be implemented here, is you can make each and every comment to be moderated to prevent spam comments. This might add 5 minutes of extra work, but atleast you will not have irate reader.
I don’t know how many of you have fallen into same situation like this. But if you do I would like to know what’s your reaction after seeing this message? Do you hit back and re-enter captcha or do you hit the close button like me?
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I honestly couldn’t possibly agree more. I’ve read several sites that strongly discourage Captcha if you want to maximize your comment counts.
I’ve written small novels for comments only to receive that exact message you said. If it’s a site I regularly visit, I’ll usually rewrite a paraphrase of my comment.. If it’s a site that I’m visiting for the first time, I just leave… pissed off
Thats what my problem is, I hope this post will be useful for those who are using captcha on their blog. Thanks for your comment.
I use a pretty simple image captcha ..It uses 4 letter commonly used word..I think that will not be a pro..What say Harsh?
Sham that depends on your requirement, if you getting lots of spam comments it is useful for you, else you might try to remove it and see the difference in no. of comments.
Try AntiSpam Bee (the one I’m using) – http://www.michaelaulia.com/blogs/fight-against-spam-round-iv-antispam-bee-enters-the-war.html
Sorry Harsh, not trying to take your readers to my blog, but I want to help as much bloggers as possible to not waste their time managing spam comments
Hey Michael I guess Its perfectly fine and you can add links till the time they are relevant to the current post and adding a value to the post.:)
these forms annoy me when i am making a comment because i know i am no SPAM….but i love it when spammers cant comment on my blog….it prevents my useless effort of comment moderation
After using my AntiSpam Bee plug-in, I only get 1-2 spam a day and I never annoy my readers like you anymore
But I can understand the frustration, Harsh
Hey Michael Just confused about your comment “I never annoy my readers like you anymore” . Could you be more clear?
I really hate captcha forms but there is one plus points like if you are registered in a comment service like disqus then you don’t need to reregister or make any other entry when you want to coment on the same blog or any other blog providing same service, also your comments are automatically save and available in a profile records. But yes Harsh I am agree with you, these captcha really sucks some times, it decreases the number of comments on a blog.
I agree with you Himanshu, personally I love Disqus and many times I thought of integrating it here, but I like the wordpress default comment box and I want to keep it this much simple.
Thanks for your comment and insight.
I also hate it, I type a decent comment and then struggle to publish it. That makes me think twice about commenting on sites that use it. I would like to see the numbers of what percentage of your readers either like or dislike it. Do you think you could use a poll for this?
Thanks George for pointer, from next time I will try to implement a poll along with such posts.
Yes i also faced same problem. I never comment on blogs which has 7+3 and when give answer. We will get wordpress error.
That actually happens when we open 2-3 tabs together from such blogs. I hope bloggers using such plugin, will use some simple plugin for this issue.
Harsh, Sometimes, as u said, when we try to re-enter the captcha.. our Original typed message is Gone! and it is a waste of time!
Thanks for Sharing , even i had this problem..
And How about The Captcha like 11+1=? … i guess this is quite good rather than distorted letters.. what say harsh?
Such captcha are easy, since it does not take much time entering them but I have seen blog using this plugin , and when we open 2-3 tabs together, this plugin gives error.
if at all i need to use captcha for my blog i ll use simple mathematical calculations.. which will not create a lot of confusion.. but I personally hate captcha…
Excellent post and I would have to agree 100% I HATE CAPTCHA on Blogs period.
Even I don’t prefer to comment on sites with CAPTCHAs