20Feb/091
reCaptcha Jinxed
I think we jinxed the reCaptcha, because all of the sudden spam comments are showing up on the dashboard. The blog received 17 spam comments in the past couple days, not many but still spam. Before Akismet and reCaptcha, spam was a huge problem. I hate spam!
February 21st, 2009 - 13:33
Hi,
There are two common issues that make reCAPTCHA appear to be broken, but are actually not problems.
* Moderation emails: reCAPTCHA marks comments as spam, so if you get moderation emails when spam comments are sent, you will get moderation emails for all spam comments with reCAPTCHA. We highly recommend turning off moderation emails with reCAPTCHA.
* Trackbacks and Pingbacks: reCAPTCHA can’t do anything about pingbacks and trackbacks. You can disable pingbacks and trackbacks in Options | Discussion | Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks).