[Radiant] Commentable and Spam

[Sean Cribbs]

Thank you all for your thoughts.  I'll be looking into the Akismet, Rick
said the code in Mephisto was free-for-the-taking: he lifted it from
somewhere too.  In the meantime, I'd appreciate if someone would look into a
textual challenge-response as well.

I also wanted to probe John about the subject of where comments are stored.
I know there had been previous discussions of how to implement comments on
the list, and they largely shaped my chosen implementation.  Do you think it
would still be relevant to have a separate Comments model with its own
admin-UI, or is the stored-as-pages method ok? (i.e. is the method I'm using
good enough to fulfill the goal of "Radiant has comments")

Sean Cribbs
seancribbs.com

On 9/6/06, Martin McEvoy <martin at weborganics.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi all my first post :)
> http://ideoplex.com/id/1138/sanitize-html-in-ruby
> have you seen this site it may have what you are looking for typo uses it,
> I think its built from the sanitize plugin on moveable type.
>
> Kind Regards
> Martin
>
> On Wednesday 06 Sep 2006 18:12, Sean Cribbs wrote:
> > It's probably too early for many of you who are using the Comments
> > behaviors to get blog-spam, but I wanted to address the issue before it
> > becomes a problem.
> >
> > One user, "Nolan", commented that CAPTCHA images are inaccessible (to
> > vision-impaired users) and should not be considered an option.  As an
> > alternative, he suggested the use of spam-filtering services like
> Akismet.
> > While this seems a very promising option, that would be a whole lot of
> > extra code (and perhaps another library, even a gem!) and probably
> outside
> > the scope of my little behaviors.
> >
> > Instead I'd like to get your thoughts on another method, although there
> is
> > ample room for many methods down the road.  The method I'm considering
> is a
> > challenge-response where the challenge is in human-readable text (a
> method
> > suggested on some of the CAPTCHA pages I read).  I haven't worked out
> the
> > particulars, but it would go something like "Subtract twenty-five from
> the
> > sum of eighty and thirty-seven and enter the result as a number." The
> real
> > ones would probably be easier than that, of course.  This could be
> > automatically generated of course.  Another option is to say "Enter the
> > subject of the sentence 'Jane walked to school.'" or something of that
> > sort.
> >
> > Please give me your thoughts on this...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Sean Cribbs
> > seancribbs.com
> >
> > P.S. updated comments behaviors at
> > http://seancribbs.com/svn/rails/plugins/comments_behaviors
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