If i use captcha will i be able to stop the spam completely in my blog?

Question

I have a Wordpress blog and the only user input is the commenting system. I want to totally avoid spam comments. Wordpress comes with Akismet but I can also use Captcha. Whi

Answer 1

I saw this video for MintEye the other day and thought that it was a really great alternative to captcha.

They boast a much higher solve rate and better spam protection.

Answer 2

You'll never be able to completely avoid spam, but most fully automated spambots can be stopped by something like ReCaptcha.

Answer 3

Using Wordfence plugin also is a good option to avoid spams.

Using Recaptcha is better than using any other captcha plugins. But Recaptcha sometimes shows nasty characters which in unreadable so sometimes your visitors will get irritated.

Many articles says that using Akismet is a good option. I think that is also a good one. But however there are some spams you cannot avoid it seems. Using the above plugins you can minimize the spams.

Answer 4

Akismet is ok. Nothing else.

Akismet not stop spam. also STOP FORUM SPAM plugins too. All spammer able to post comments.

If ya have set comment moderation thats great spam block to display on ur site.

I daily get lots of spam comments. Those plugins failed to stop them.

Only little bit help.

Answer 5

I do not believe that there is 100% spamproof captcha and it is wrong to count on this.
But I believe in captcha being capable to change its principles of spamstoppingn more fast and easy than spamming techniques development.

PS
The most popular captchas (reCAPTCHA, SI Captcha, etc.) do not and cannot be changed, are passable by bots .