Implemented Captcha to stop the CommunityServer spam

I don’t care what anyone says about the Spam Rules engine in Community Server. It may work partially, but it sure isn’t great. I got nearly 200 spam messages yesterday on ChrisHammond.com, and I’d estimate 1500 over the past 7 days.

That’s 1500 freaking spam messages about Dale Earnhardt, used cell phones, Bahamas beach clubs and who knows what other topics. I have all the CS spam rules implemented, including the Akismet rules as well, yet I still get spam messages coming through. Community Server may filter the spam into probable and likely, but that’s not good enough for me anymore.

I want spam stopped before it gets there. So, in an attempt to thwart the deluge of spam I’ve implemented captcha control. I hope that this allows me to simple block the spam posts from getting entered at all, rather than just filtering them into seperate buckets.

I’ll post later this week with an update on how things are going… Down with the spam!