Are you human?

Today morning I was busy filtering the feedbacks with all spam comments entered. Just a few days back I had applied the simple verfication word to my son's guestbook code and it is working great for me so far. No unwanted and spammy comments. You can check out the guestbook. I had tried using image CAPTCHAs( Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), but it did not work for me. I still used to get lots of unwanted stuff with the favorite comment posted as "Nice Book". That was very irrelevant comment but the sites mentioned were quite relevant pointing to all those adult and casino sites;)

Since it worked for that site, I added the same for KidsandBibs feedback form. The visitor just needs to type the verficiation word specified and if it matches the comments will be saved else it will not be saved. I personally don't like CAPTCHA images as sometimes even if youa re human, you cannot identify the characters properly and it becomes very frustrating for a genuine visitor who wants to post a feedback for you.

I will keep a watch and see how effective this method. I will be posting about this in future. You can goto KidsandBibs feedback form to check out how it has been implemented.