I recently had a little discussion with Nick about comment spam. This was after I had implemented the little hack which required you to re-type a six-digit number in order to post comments. Nick said that he thought it was a reasonable solution, but had the good point that he didn't like the idea of making his readers do anything differently. He had the idea to embed a hidden generatable number which would verify that comments posted to his site were actually posted through the form on his site.

I, being unoriginal, decided to steal his idea. However, as I am not only unoriginal but lazy, I figured that it's enough to just embed a fixed hidden value in the form, rather than a generated number. This is similar to Eric's idea to combat comment spam by asking users to type in his last name in the comment form.

So... there ya go. We'll see how it works.

Edit: I just realized that ever since I implemented the above-mentioned number hack, people have been unable to post comments on my photos page. Oops. This has now been fixed.

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