Wordpress allows developers to develop their own type of anti-spam plugins. There are different of anti-spam plugins. There are types that asks you to enter logical questions such as is fire hot ? Their are some that wants you to compute a simple mathematical questions such as 2 + 2. Then their are some that wants you to write a word as you see it. This plugins helps to prevent spam. When I installed anti-spam plugins I didn’t get any spam, but I don’t know if I did drive away potential commenters.
I am saying this because I don’t like commenting on blogs with captcha plugins. When I want to leave a comment, I have to write the exact word shown to me. Writing it is not the problem. The problem is when the word is not clear. At times, I have to write the word like 4 times to post my comment. This means I have to have patience. If I am in a hurry, when I try to comment once and the word I wrote is wrong, I don’t bother trying to rewrite the word again. I just move on to the next blog.
I think the best anti-spam plugin is Akismet plugin. It is standard on wordpress. It is stops most spams (I can say on this blog). To use Akismet, activate the plugin. Then register at wordpress (the free wordpress blog) to get an askimet key. Then enter the key into your blog. Your site is now protected from spammers.
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I totally agree with you.
Its not that i’m lazy of writing or break the math quotation but it is difficult some time especially when it come to write the word exactly the same cause its sometime that the word are not clear and cannot be understandable …
When this happen, the same like you i will just leave the blog…
Akismet is good but sometime its also will hold the legitimate comment into spams box….
Just my opinion….
I know. Just be checking the spam akismet spam for any legitimate comment(s).
I agree anti spam plugin distract commentors, but still sometimes akismet skips bad comments
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