One of the more annoying aspects of this once great social networking site, is the issue of spam comments from friends whose accounts have been hacked into.
Usually promoting free ringtones and other stupid dribble, these spam comments account for roughly 20% of all the comments people get on their myspace page.
Today it seems that myspace has implemented captcha, a way to reduce spam comments. Similar to buying items online, this extra step verifies that indeed the online action being taken is by a human and not computer or a clever script. Captcha asks you read some text and then type it into a box verifying your intentions, something a script cannot do.
I went to leave a couple of my friends comments promoting a night out to celebrate a new job that you’ll hear about shortly. Both friends myspace pages requires this new step, which makes me believe its a universal change to how myspace works.
Its not too obtrusive and is probably much needed (could have been done awhile ago).
