magicword - Magic word method for reducing comm…¶
Summary¶
This is about the simplest anti-comment-spam measure you can imagine, but it’s probably effective enough for all but the most popular blogs. Here’s how it works. You pick a question and put a field on your comment for for the answer to the question. If the user answers it correctly, his comment is accepted. Otherwise it’s rejected. Here’s how it works:
Install¶
Requires the comments
plugin.
This plugin comes with Pyblosxom. To install, do the following:
- Add
Pyblosxom.plugins.magicword
to theload_plugins
list in yourconfig.py
file. - Configure as documented below.
Configure¶
Here’s an example of what to put in config.py:
py['mw_question'] = "What is the first word in this sentence?"
py['mw_answer'] = "what"
Note that mw_answer
must be lowercase and without leading or
trailing whitespace, even if you expect the user to enter capital
letters. Their input will be lowercased and stripped before it is
compared to mw_answer
.
Here’s what you put in your comment-form
file:
The Magic Word:<br />
<i>$(mw_question)</i><br />
<input maxlenth="32" name="magicword" size="50" type="text" /><br />
It’s important that the name of the input field is exactly “magicword”.
Security note¶
In order for this to be secure(ish) you need to protect your
config.py
file. This is a good idea anyway!
If your config.py
file is in your web directory, protect it from
being seen by creating or modifying a .htaccess
file in the
directory where config.py
lives with the following contents:
<Files config.py>
Order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>
This will prevent people from being able to view config.py
by
browsing to it.
License¶
Plugin is distributed under license: MIT