Remember when Blogger first started with this stupid word verification thing?
I absolutely hate it and I'll be honest to all of you with it enabled: it lowers my probability of commenting on your blog. By a lot. Especially when I make a comment, and then have to type in gibberish 3 times before getting it right. By then I usually just give up.
But it IS there for a reason: to deflect spammers. And for almost a whole year I had no issue at all. But recently the spammers have gotten through. Blogger caught most of them, but I'm going to re-enable it for a little while. Probably like a week or so.
Sorry. I still hate it, but this will make me feel like I'm doing something about all these stupid fake comments.
NOOOOO fuckin capcha. I hate that crap. I deal with the spammers, because they are so minimal :(
ReplyDeletewoth you on the less likely to comment if you have word verification
I've got my blog set up for no anonymous comments, I find that filters out the worst of it and I can cope with the occasional one that slips through manually.
ReplyDeleteI hate the capcha, partly due to the silly numbers where they photograph them out of focus from ages away and I'm supposed to know by magic if it's a 5 or an 8!
I too hate the captcha, luckily I haven't had any issue with spam so far (one or two comments, both caught by blogger).
ReplyDeleteI think if I do have an issue, I'll try having all comments approved before publishing, but depending on the amount of spam I imagine that becomes unmanageable sometimes!