Comments on: The Searchblog Human Detector

By: Google Success

Google Success — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:58:45 +0000

Well, the human detector always comes with an error – ‘Comments not received’. Now let me see if it works this time if I sign in through typepad.

By: Garbage

Garbage — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:11:01 +0000

This human detector is useless. If I write my real name and site it does not allow me to post comment, but if I write something rubbish it allows me. strange !

By: Google SEO Tips

Google SEO Tips — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 03:08:36 +0000

Just testing if your human detector let me go in !!

By: Li Evans

Li Evans — Sat, 04 Nov 2006 02:37:59 +0000

and here we all thought you secretly liked that type of “gear”

hope the spam catcher is working!

love what you’re writing about too

By: Fish

Fish — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 19:03:16 +0000

Just testing. Read Scot’s posting about this problem. He rules.

By: wilbur

wilbur — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:10:39 +0000

shiny plastic bondage spam!

I'm just seeing if i pass as a non-human

moo!

By: Scot Hacker

Scot Hacker — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:31:44 +0000

Michael – Did you by chance send the TrackBack from a WordPress blog? Just did some testing and reading, and it looks like MT does not pick up pings sent from WP blogs for some reason. This is unrelated to TinyTuring.

By: Dave Taylor

Dave Taylor — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:06:29 +0000

I completely support this change, John, and find that this sort of thing is darn easy compared to some of the more byzantine solutions out there (like “register for our site before you can leave a comment”). Mine’s a bit tougher, actually, I actually ask people to add two two-digit numbers and produce the result. I figure it also serves as an intelligence test!

By: Scott Johnson

Scott Johnson — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:56:18 +0000

I like human detectors like this that are simple. Those CAPTCHAs are often very difficult to read. This is an excellent solution.

By: Scot Hacker

Scot Hacker — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 04:55:42 +0000

Looking into the Trackback issue now. For anyone interested, this is the TinyTuring plugin for Movable Type by Kevin Shay.