Popular Photoblog = Spam

Posted by fotoviva on July 07, 2007 in Photo Art News tagged with

Since launching the Fotoviva Blog it has steadily gained a strong following and now gets more and more hits each week. Whilst this is great we have discovered a downside to this! As the blog got more visitors it also got more spam

Too many comments made from automated spammers trying to sell gawd knows what – from viagra to holidays and gambling – you know, all the stuff we love to get in our inboxes every morning! Why do these people even bother? Does anyone actually click their links? You’d have to be pretty dumb to do anything but delete them.

So regretably we have had to add an anti-spam method for posting comments. Don’t worry, it’s just a simple plugin where you have to add up a simple maths equation such as what is 329×7445-154%+339 – nah just kidding! Something like ‘what is the sum of 5+4′ is all you’ll encounter. It just makes sure that you are indeed human when posting a comment. Feel free to take it for a test drive if you don’t have anything better to do with your day