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or are over zealous anti-spam tactics shooting themselves in the foot?

A while back I mentioned being unable to post comment because of black list. Today yet another silly tactic stopped me from commenting on Revnews.

Upon submitting my comment, this is what I get.

Comment Submission Error

Your comment submission failed for the following reasons:

In an effort to curb malicious comment posting by abusive users, I’ve enabled a feature that requires a weblog commenter to wait a short amount of time before being able to post again. Please try to post your comment again in a short while. Thanks for your patience.

Funny thing I did not post any comment before this. It was the first comment I’m posting to the site.

I waited for a short amount of time. Try again. No luck. Tried 3 more times. Gave up and decided to write this post instead.

Ask yourself, are you killing spam or killing usability (and user’s patience)?