KissaBoo

Submitted for Comment

Some of our few regular readers may have noticed the occasionally off-topic comments on this site touting Texas Hold'em or various drugs that usually are quickly deleted. A couple of magnitudes of similar comments never make it to the site due to Jay Allen's MT-Blacklist Plugin. The major problem with this method is that an oddly formed or new topic will make it through until it can be evaluated for its comment worthiness. To combat this problem, another system has been put in place. I looked for a similar plugin months ago, but apparently never hit upon the appropriate terminology. When looking at a story on Blue Sky On Mars today, I noticed it used images to prove that human beings were reading the site (or at least, that script kiddies have some significant image parsing know how). Thus KissaBoo now uses the SCode plugin created by James Seng to verify comments. If it does the trick, the blacklist may be eliminated or if it turns out that a thousand monkeys from around the world are reading and posting on this site to possibly make a few cents, it will go the way of a Chyler Leigh television show.