As is the case with every site that’s been up for more than five minutes, the spammer’s scripts are starting to find me. I have no desire to turn comments off, nor do I want to have to waste time sifting through email notifications trying to seperate real comments from spam.

Captchas are annoying, but I think they’re the only workable solution that anyone’s managed to come up with. However, there’s an ingenious implementation that does the job while simultaneously assisting various book scanning projects. The system provides two words to input, one being the actual captcha, and the other a word taken from a list of words that an OCR scanner failed to recognise. Promotes literacy, stops spam. And hey, this is a quasi-literary site, so it even fits the theme. Of course, you may consider the entire site to be spam, in which case no captcha system will help you.

Full explanations and details here, highly recommended.

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