Yes we know it looks weird
We're likely to revise it a bit, or perhaps backtrack and remove it completely.
We haven't had any problems with spam, yet. But it's preventative. We know bots have difficulty travelling through forms. If they can't find the comment page, they're not going to leave spam.
Yes, we know the "recent comments" to the right pretty much negate any benefits this might have.
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nobody
at 12/2/2004 8:28:42 AM- confirmation code removed, though we appreciate the assistance. In the future we might consider adding them. We are actually investigating methods of not using them, but still protecting blogs from spam.
confirmation code added