I’m getting hit with spam blasts a couple of times a day. I’m updating my filters each time, but they keep coming. And sometimes I’m out of pocket and the spam in the comments sticks around until I get to it.
I could make commenting harder. I don’t know, captcha, or some kind of account requirement or blacklist subscription or something else. Or I could just leave it along and do what I’m doing now.
Please spam this post with comments on this. Do you give a shit? Do you have strong personal feelings about one solution or another?
And, please excuse the non-review post. I do try to not do that.
If you added a feature, like captcha or an account requirement, I would happily jump through that extra hoop, if it made your life a little easier. I do not have strong feelings. About anything. I might be a little dead inside. Ever since the incident. But you don’t want to hear about that…
Bryce, thank you for all your hard work and for consistently entertaining and informing the OSR community.
We all know what spam is in this day and age. It’s like barnacles, you have to scrape them off the hull every now and again. It’s an extremely minor annoyance to your readers; I wouldn’t worry about us.
Please just keep things the way they are. Don’t let the spammers and the haters get you to change one God damn thing. You’ll never please the haters. You’ll never stop all the spam. They both can go to Hell.
A reCAPTCHA requirement sounds like an elegant solution. It would keep your forum open for easy commenting, simultaneously blocking most spam bots. I found instructions online for how to integrate reCAPTCHA into WordPress blogs for free. I’d bet other OSR bloggers have advice on how they handle spam.
I am very engaged with this blog and found you because i dont need a google account. The dont be evil mission of google is now a dodo bird and i fear for the future.
Thank you bryce for allowing me to be myself
Gabor and others i enjoy dont allow me to express myself in a way that respects me
I dont blame them for this but i love you for what you do
If you go for a capta maybe make it an easy one that is open source and vpn friendly?
I love you and coffee and bryce is now a treasured part of my life ilook forward too
Being free to comment in a way that i am comfortable with and engage with all the awesome folks looking to get better together?
Thats so rare these days
I love not having hoops and think it makes this plave special
But spam sucks ans i hate you have yo deal with it
Instead of bothering with the technical hassles of implementing Captcha, you could present a simple challenge:
“Are you Kent?” [yes|no]
I’m willing to deal with Captcha, signing in, any solution. The content is well worth any effort required to help alleviate the issue. Even if you take no steps, I’m going keep reading, so whatever works for you works for me!
Hmmm, ok. I wonder if this works?
Nothing happened… ?
No regerts I tested this.
reCAPTCHA is fine by me , I would have no issues with it
Test
I was really hoping this was a review of a adventure with a really clever title.
Recaptcha is no issue.
For me, nor is a sign in. Although it may be a bridge too far for newer or occasional readers to bother.
Captcha or Retinal Recognition, both are fine.
nah.
Captcha seems like the easier solution? But accounts work too.
Please choose all the pictures that resemble a bad adventure before continuing to the comments section….
I rarely comment, so do what you have to do!
Test
Spam suck balls, maybe simple comment approval. Might slow dow the discourse a bit. Get the feeling this blog is a something you built from scratch. I’ve been messing around with WordPress and they do anti-spam tools.
Stripe said: “Bryce, thank you for all your hard work and for consistently entertaining and informing the OSR community.
We all know what spam is in this day and age. It’s like barnacles, you have to scrape them off the hull every now and again. It’s an extremely minor annoyance to your readers; I wouldn’t worry about us.”
Please do whatever works best for you.
I’ll add my thanks to the list. Still an enjoyable read each time.
Do whatever makes your life comfortable and gives you more time.
Testy McTesterson number #2, cause the first thing didn’t filter out the spam
Test 3
No capta if you can help it they suck
But spam also sucks
What about what Alex S does for his blog?
To save this page you must answer this question:
What is the name of the default page on this site? (The first link at the top.)
Your name:
Homepage URL:
Email:
subscribe
Alex is a longtime osr awesome dude rpg planet campaign wiki lots of qewsome stuff see
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/Comments_on_2023-01-13_Do_better
Happy with whatever, but if you could fix the forum so validation emails actually get sent, that would be awesome.
Captcha sucks. I’d rather you don’t go that route.
Whatever pleases the host!
Captcha sucks! Also I don’t read the comments anyway, because I read tenfootpole on Feedly, and the app doesn’t show the comments!
Your idiosyncratic ramblings are mined with wisdom. So Id miss you if you gave up.
I’m happy with Captcha. What are people’s objections to it?
Captcha seems fine. You could also make all comments only publish after they’re reviewed and approved, though that sounds like it could be a lot of work.
Ironically, your quest against spam has led to everyone simply spamming the word “test” in the comments. On that note: test
Between CAPTCHA and needing to sign in with a well-known identity provider like Google or Facebook or Github, I prefer sign-in, but it’s not a big deal either way. Mostly I just read anyway, usually don’t comment.
Thanks for the info, interesting ten foot poles. Buy potions of healing. Buy ten foot poles olbear dungeon oil Cashapp and Venmo, very nice. Contact email kent@aione.hibernia.com
Flawless spoof
I like the are you kent verification question 😉
Just when I thought I was back in the good books.
You’re in good books, always forever
Near or far, closer together
Everywhere I will be with you
Everything I will do for you
You’ve got…
The most unbelievable blue eyes I’ve ever seen
Catchy enough for me to tap my knee.
Happy with Captcha if that works for you.
Sure go for it! Im down wiht some account recquirement, maybe I’ll get more active in the comments too!
Captcha should be fine.