Spam Protection: Bringing Back CAPTCHA

A couple of months ago I posted about adding Defensio to help with the spam protection. I thought by using Defensio I’d be able to get rid of the annoying CAPTCHA, but it’s back.

Defensio did (er, does) a great job preventing spammy comments from getting through, but I got tired of dealing with the approval process on the questionable one’s. Even though it was only questioning about 5% of the comments, that was averaging about 10-15 per day that I had to explicitly mark as spam or approve. So, in hopes to avoid having to do that, I’m now running a double-whammy spam protection setup: Defensio and the CAPTCHA. We’ll see how it goes.