Continuing my Oxite series of blog posts I'll address the comments area. For my taste oxite is missing a couple of things on the comments listing and comments posting department. It doesn't have a way to ensure that the comment being posted is not being generated by a bot. I've already been a victim of this and to be honest I'm not a fan of SPAM, so let's stop that! Oxite also doesn't have a special style for comments posted by the site admin. In this blog post we are going to address this issues by implementing a css class that helps the reader identify a site administrator comment from a blog comment's list and a captcha validation for the comments input.
For these tasks I'll be using css and reCAPTCHA, which is owned by google and it's used among popular sites as Facebook, The New York Times, StackOverflow, TicketMaster, etc. It's worth pointing out that reCaptcha was initially conceived in Carnegie Mellon University, where the term "CAPTCHA" was initially coined. The term contrives from the acronym "Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart."