The comments system is back up and running again on this site. For the past several days I've been fighting spam showing up in the comments area.

It's these damn bots that crawl or surf the site and post 'fake' comments that do nothing more than spam it up with advertisments. I freakin' hate it. It got so bad that every few minutes I would have to go in and delete four or five new entries. I finally disabled the comments until I could figure out what to do to stop the spam.

Finally I got a security image working to stop the spam. You see with this security image, these crappy bots can't read the characters in the image and therefore cannot post comments. So now only real people can post. Sorry to have to make you guys re-type this security image.

When I get more time in the future, I'll post a tutorial on how I intergraded this feature into the system.