TypePad Introduces CAPTCHA Test for Comments

If you thought spamming comments in typepad blogs was easy, then typepad users will be delighted to know that unauthenticated commenters who don’t sign in through TypeKey will need to perform word verification by a captcha before their comment is posted to your blog.

Everything Typepad annouced this new feature

“You can now require unauthenticated commenters (who don’t sign in through TypeKey) to pass a CAPTCHA test before their comment is posted to your blog. The CAPTCHA (a “”completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart”) will help prevent automated robots from posting comment spam to your blog. We have more feedback management features in development to help you control the comments and TrackBacks on your blog, and will be rolling those out over the next month.”

Comment spam is a big problem with blogs. CAPTCHA tests ensure the blog platform checks that the user is human and can read the letters and type it. At present I have to moderate comments before they go live on Wordpress because of the automated spam comments I get. Surely Typepad users will be happy by this new feature.