First off, Askimet is FREE. Second, it’s not a Captcha tool it’s just a plugin that really stops most of your SPAM.

The are other Captcha tools I’ve seen like selecting image recognition CAPTCHAs but these pose a problem for the visually impaired.

No I don’t know how to implement the one you’re talking about where readers are asked mathematical questions (“what is 1+1″), or “common sense” questions (“what color is the sky on a clear day”). These are done by the use of JavaScript but they don’t meet the criteria for successful Captcha’s because they’re not automatically generated and they don’t present a new problem or test to meet each attack.

I don’t know what the answer is but for now I will just keep doing what I’ve been doing and that’s not to leave comments on blogs that require Captchas.

Later,
Jeff Sargent

I really think its a catch 22, and I know there are other CAPTCHA tools out there besides ASKIMET, but I also agree with you that I have a helluva time reading those, and its frustrating. What I have seen that I really liked on a couple blogs was where they ask a question, like “type the color of grass” but I do not know how to implement that. Does anyone else?
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Thanks for getting on my case,

Later,
Jeff Sargent

guess what – you left a nice comment on my site, so I followed to your site, found a few nice posts and decided to leave a comment on this one! How about that – shows that you have a point with Tip #5! I try to respond to most comments, but as there are many with having a top commentator, keywordluv, commentluv and dofollow blog, sometimes it is just not possible. Your readers also have to understand that at times they might not get a reply, and I think that’s cool. Thanks for this useful post!

A great New Year with lots of IM success to you, too!

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A lot of it is pretty much common sense but I guess some people just don’t have any do they?

Glad to see you drop by and thanks for the comment.

Yeah it’s pretty apparent by the comments here that not many people like the captchas. Either they’re getting harder to read or I’m getting older and my eyes aren’t what they used to be. Actually I think it’s the former.

As far as the big name bloggers go I’m sure in the beginning of their blogs they answered all comments by when you start getting 50 to 100 comments a day it’s impossible to reply to them all.

You didn’t have to ask me to visit your blog and leave as I try to do that as quickly as possible most of the time. But I’ve fallen behind lately so I’m a few days late but that’s where I’m heading now.

Later,
Jeff Sargent

You make good points. I don’t really like the capcha either but if I like the blog I will still leave a comment.

I do usually most of the things you cover in your 5 points but don’t always ask people to leave a comment, I do that only once in a while.

Replying to comments is a no brainer but I noticed that the big bloggers do it only sporadically and some of them don’t do it at all.

I guess the reason they get away with it is their fame and popularity plus high traffic.

I wonder if you’ll come over to comment on my blog.
I visit the commentator blogs about 95% of the time when I like the comments they leave and comment on their blog.

I just asked you if you would comment on my blog. I think this is the first time I’ve done that within a comment.

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Mr Robert Plank has a good thing going with all of his blog posts. He promotes the like a product, uses the powers of scarcity and cuts people off.

It’s very simple and really clever getting lots of blog posts.. Might have to get my but in gear.
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