Are robots stupid?

posted by Rob on January 17, 2008 02:56 PM

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Yesterday there were several hundred spam comments on this blog and zero real ones. That can't be right, can it? While I'm sure Em and I accept that the great internetting public have better and more productive things to do with their day than add their words to this particular lexical compost heap, I do take exception to evil spam robots bombarding the blog with their rather prurient solicitations. Time to see just how smart these robot fiends are, I thought. So I've added a little plugin (courtesy of this site) to the blog which requires you to answer a question before it will accept your comment. Currently the question is: 'What colour is nice, new snow?'. I'll be interested to see whether the tin swines can work that out or whether it will stump them.

And do let me know if it stops humans from posting, because that's not my plan at all.

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Comments: 4


testing...


What was Sarah's query about World Book Day...from a previous post..I'm curious and nosy?!


I emailed Sarah and tried to find out, but she wouldn't say. I think it must be some kind of secret.


oh it concerns the real colour of snow...

No, it was simply that when I tried to follow the link from you to the WBD site, I got a 404 error message. But I think it was only due to your weekend maintenance issues, as it's fine now.

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