The messaging on web forms need to be much better — I submitted a comment 10+ times (in one case) trying to pass the captcha because I didn’t notice that one of them had already succeeded.
Comments should have an obvious status message:
<p class="msg ok"></p>
and add the following css rules:
.msg { border: 1px solid #999; }
.msg.ok { background-color: #eef; color: #009; }
.msg.err { background-color: #fee; color: #900; }
The key here is the .dual.class selector in the 2nd and 3rd rules (this goes back as far as IE 5.5 for support).