The general theory is if you value your visitors communication then you should not make it harder for them to communicate in an attempt to block Spam. Instead there are many other ways to prevent it behind the scenes. CAPTCHA in my opinion is a last resort, but what other options are there? How can you effectively prevent idiots from spamming your contact forms and comment boxes?
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The main reason someone would consider using CAPTCHA on their blog to begin with is probably to try and prevent spammers. You open a website, and over time you’ll notice that as your site gets found online the spam starts flowing in. It’s a bitter sweet feeling. If the bots can find you, then people will start finding you, but you don’t really want the spam bots on your site.
Normally to alleviate the extra work of dealing with all the spam many will use a CAPTCHA image in their form to prevent these automated bots from posting. But if you have a website then I’m sure you’ve visited another website. Have you ever visited a site with CAPTCHA and had difficulty posting anything because you can’t read the letters?
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After helping move a Wordpress Installation for someone today, we found the site not working. Specifically what appeared to be broken was the post and page links. The home page displayed just fine, but try to go any deeper than that and all you see is 404 errors. Turns out hidden files need to be moved also.
In Linux, any file that starts with a period is considered hidden. Most FTP clients have the default setting of not displaying hidden files. But you still can’t forget to move them if you are moving your website.
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