Thursday, February 16, 2012
Word Verification
I don't use word verification on my blog. A lot of bloggers do, and that's up to them. Personally speaking, I get very little spam, and check my comments daily so I can delete any which I consider spam. I see blogger has decided to use absolutely horrible word verification, and as a result, I probably won't leave comments on the blogs who have that. I'll still read your blogs though, but I just don't need the level of irritation that I get from trying to leave a comment.
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I'm not a big fan of word verification either. And now that blogger seems to have a better spam filter it doesn't really seem necessary.
I hate that dumb word verification. I don't use it. It makes my eye's crossed to try and figger out what the word is.
Hi Shirley,
Thank You !!! I feel the same way. Drives me nuts!!!!!
Well said!
You said this so much more succinctly that I did!
It is truly a roadblock to posting...
And, since I seem to have a terrible time deciphering the captcha... I probably won't bother.
I'll have to check out my settings.
Wow, I just went to leave a comment on another blog and had to try three times to get the thing right! First blogger forced me to change web browsers because I couldn't comment when people had embedded comments, now I can't comment if word verification is on.
Having set up my blog so long ago I don't actually know what it's set to, but I'm guessing I have it on. Turning it off now! Yuck!
Just a note for anyone trying to turn this off on their blogs. If you are using the new blogger interface there is no setting to turn it on or off. You need to revert to the old blogger interface to fix it.
I don't get too much spam either, wordpress does an excellent job of filtering out the spam..:-)
can't remember if I turned mine back on or not. I need to go check. I took it off for a while, but I was getting 4-5 ridiculous spam comments a day and was getting irritated. However, I just saw an example of the work verification on Dreamings post and it's even more ridiculous than the spam I was dealing with! I've neglected blog reading again for a few weeks so I hadn't noticed, but blogger could be a little more user friendly and still block out the "robots!"
i think there is word verification on mine. i will have to check it out. if it prohibits comments, then i will have change something....
I agree, that new type of word verification sucks!! It's like Ticketmaster. Sometimes it takes me multiple trys to get it right. Thanks for voicing what I think.
I'm with you - it's been driving me nuts all morning!
Sam
Seems there's a concensus... I don't use word verification as I don't seem to get any spam...although I don't get much of anything...so I don't worry about it. I do however not comment on some of the blogs because it is extremely irritating.
Love the mug from Sherry and what a nice thing to say....she's just a doll.
I have been so horrible about visiting blogs these last few weeks, so as I'm going through several this morning, I'm thinking what in the world???
You're absolutely right - it is horrible.
i don't use word verification. i don't like it. i do however fully moderate my blog to keep spammers and unwanted links out.
I don't have problems with spam, and no offensive comments for a while either....maybe I'm fortunate.
I saw a blog from Eastern Europe where the verification words included accented letters as per their language. Goodness knows how one is to post a comment there!
I agree, I think it is unnesecary and kinda a nuisance, and I am not that worried about spam that I rarely get.
I'll give it a try, I turned my word verification off.
Great post..I hate word verification too and find it horribly frustrating. Like you I may read a post..but not comment:)
agreed, I removed mine. They trouble was blogger don't tell you they had done it.
Same here, so no offense if I can;t leave comments with word verification. Thank you for posting this.
Oh my, I ranted about the very same thing on my blog today.. it STINKS!
I didn't know it was such a pain until I saw someone blog about it and remembered your comment asking me to turn it off. I know why and I am more then happy to turn the dang thing off. :-)
I just found out today that I had my word verification settings turn to on. All this time I thought I didn't. (embarrassing) I hate the new word veri process too. Well I figured out how to turn it off...yay! :-)
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