As part of last night’s Blogware maintenance, CAPTCHAs were added to the comment form. CAPTCHAs are images like the one below which contains text the commenter will need to enter into the field after the image to verify that a human is filling out the form.

Using CAPTCHAs will help prevent blog comment spam (which also helps the Blogware system run better). Currently, this feature is enabled for all blogs, applies to anonymous and logged in commenters, and cannot be disabled. In the future, this will be an option you can enable/disable in your blog’s settings.