21 February 2012

I am not a BOT

and my eyes are too old to read those word verification things especially when the letters are kerned together. I get so frustrated when I type in what I see and get rejected over and over. I think I'm not alone. So I have turned off word verification. I sure wish Blogger would give us numbers instead of being alphanumeric. If I get a lot of spam, I will have to moderate messages.

15 comments:

  1. Ain't it the truth? So far so good with no spam for me . . . . fingers crossed.

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  2. I just removed mine too so that you can come leave me a comment ;)

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  3. I hate those things too! will be removing from my blog. BTW love, love what you did with that yarn!!! It would still be sitting in my closet had I not sent it to you. It is lovely!

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  4. I couldn't agree more.

    I changed to no word verification several months ago, but also changed the moderated comments to posts older than 7 days. That seems to be controlling any SPAM comments.

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  5. The new word verification is giving these ole peepers fits... geez louise!

    I took word verification off my blog about a year ago and rarely get spam posts... and the spam posts do not appear on my blog; however, I get notification of them in email. I think I've had a dozen over the past year... not bad.

    I do check my spam box occasionally... when I think about it... okay, rarely.... and there are never more than one or two in there...

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  6. I feel the same way--I'll try up to 3 times, but if I still can't please the robot that creates such illegibility, I just move on to the next blog--really sad when I'd like a chance to compliment the blog owner about something she has posted.

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  7. Thank you!! I hate verification (and even more so now that they made it two words).

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  8. I turned mine off and haven't gotten any spam at all, knock on wood.

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  9. I agree, but I have made an attempt at some of them and found that I've either "guessed" correctly, or it has allowed me to "slide" through.

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  10. Anonymous9:53 AM

    I've turned it off too and I've removed anonymous comments and that seems to be the right combo to keep the spammers away...

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  11. Anonymous2:00 PM

    I hope that you don't get spam. Thanks for taking it off.
    cindy

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  12. I hate it too and turned mine off. so far--no spam.

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  13. I noticed today that Blogger has taken off the half background on one of the words. Making it a little easier but I still would rather do without. Turned mine off, too.

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  14. Thank you for turning it off!I wish more bloggers would as I'm with you-half the time I get the words wrong and retype it in again and again. After that I just don't leave a comment as it's just too annoying.
    Judy

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