Comment spam is ruining my life

The wedding site has been getting blasted with comment spam. I’ve had over 50 random Viagra and Rx comments today alone. In light of this, I’m taking steps toward preventing comment spam on this site. More than likely it’s a temporary solution, but I wanted to get something up quickly. It’s driving me crazy.

I made a disgustingly ugly verification image to prove that you aren’t an automated POS. I know this is by far the worst method to take toward preventing this, but I don’t have the time (right now) to implement a sophisticated spam filter. In order to keep it somewhat user friendly, I’m now storing cookies for your name, site and verification fields. So, you’ll only have to enter it once. I don’t know if that’s a good thing, but I couldn’t ask you to enter it everytime you want to comment. It’s bad enough I’m doing it at all, but that would be much, much worse.

Do you know if storing the verification in a cookie has any drawbacks? If so, please let me know. Oh, and I tested this for about 5-10 minutes and it seems to be working fine. If you come across any bugs, you can email me – rpheath “at” gmail “dot” com. Thanks, and I’m sorry for the annoying solution.

Note: the verification word is “ruhuman” just in case it isn’t clear.