Abode of Clarus

Site news:

As some of you may know, I have been cursing my head off trying to fix this spam problem that I have been having. My ultimate goal was to install a captcha (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) that would randomly display images and you would have to answer correctly to be allowed to post (see ISSF), but I have been having massive troubles installing the correct perl libraries to be able to do that. So as a temporary place holder, I have just made it a non-random text character. It might be changing weekly to make it a little more random, but if you look at the bottom of the comment posting box there is another text box that will tell you what you need to enter to be able to post a comment. As of today, just place an uppercase E in the box before you click post.

However, there are a few problems, that I am working on as a day to day basis:

- Preview does not work. You cannot pass the spam test
- Improve 'look and feel' (text size, box placement)
- Script to change text frequently
- Ultimatly a true CAPTCHA

If you're good at perl and don't mind VNC'ing into my box for a while... I would love the help in trying to get this CAPTCHA plugin I have compiled (BOB... OHH PLEASE BOB... HELP ME FOR THE LOVE OF GOD... I CAN"T PROGRAM THIS CRAP ANYMORE... I NEED HELP!!!).

But, on a good note, the ammount of spam recieve by rizrar.com has gone from 10-15 / hour to 0 in the past night.