Spam blocking

[swan_tower]

Although the Great Spam Flood of 2012 has subsided, I'm still getting spam comments on a few posts -- ones that, unfortunately, I can't/don't want to lock completely. (For example, the open book thread for With Fate Conspire; also pretty much every new post I've made in the last few days.)

Since several of my regular commenters aren't on LJ, and sometimes OpenID doesn't work the way it should, I've taken the intermediate step of enabling Captcha on anonymous comments. Hopefully that won't be too much of a hassle for those of you affected by it.

Comments

[edgyauthor.livejournal.com]

I've seen other LJers turn on Captcha, and it hasn't been a problem, as far as I can tell. It's such a relief to see the spam finally slow down, even though it's still annoying to see them pop up on the occasional post...

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

I've already had a couple slip through the Captcha, which is very annoying. But it does seem to be helping.