Back at the beginning of October, I posted about a movement that Bethany from B&B Ex Libris was starting to Kill Word Verification. Because I do appreciate the frustration that there can be at having to type in these random letters that are sometimes very difficult to read, I decided to be brave and turn my word verification off to.
Unfortunately, over the last couple of weeks I have been getting lots and lots of spam, all in Japanese or Chinese, so completely wasted on me. It hasn't just been one comment here or there either. Tonight I had 40 spam comments left, and I have to say it took me a darned sight longer to clean up than it did for the tosser who was posting them to do so!!
So, what I am trying to say is that Word Verification is back on! I hope that it doesn't stop people from leaving real comments. Sorry Bethany, as much as I would love to not ever have to type in random letters again for word verification, it is going to have to stay on my blog for the time being!
I had no idea you were so popular in Asia! :) I'm sorry that didn't work out for you. I wonder if you could tweak your blogger settings to where they would get rid of those for you automatically?
ReplyDeleteI'll still comment, of course. When I have to type in letters, I practice my typing to see if I can type it correctly without looking at my keyboard. ;)
It's the same with me...if I try to turn it off, I get something like 10 spam comments in the next few hours. Worry not, Marg, I'm sure everyone will keep on commenting.
ReplyDeleteWow, what a hassle. Don't these people have better things to do, then mess with people's blogs?
ReplyDeleteI am not that popular, but I don't want to deal with spam, I wouldn't know how to get rid of it so maybe I will consider word verification.
I no longer use word verification, but I do moderate comments. Both have advantages and disadvantages, I suppose. It's a pain to type in the letters, but sometimes moderating the comments confuses people -- they can't figure out why their comments don't instantly appear. It's worth it for spam prevention, though. I don't know what people think they're getting out of spamming.
ReplyDeleteI started moderating comments when I got one racist, rambling post on my blog that took forever to get to the bottom of to delete. I took it off, and within a day the same nut job was back! So I'm back to moderating--sure beats waking up to find a bunch of garbage on my blog.
ReplyDeleteI don't really want to moderate comments either. You are right Bookfool, there are advantages and disadvantages both ways.
ReplyDeleteI don't mind typing in the nonsense...doesn't bother me. I have had some spam, but not an overwhelming amount thankfully.
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