A few commenters have noted lately that Blogger has changed the word verification format, and that the new format is nigh-on impossible to read. We experienced that for ourselves yesterday when we left a comment on Robert Winter's blog.
The intent of the word verification is to ensure that genuine people are making comments, not automated systems or "bots" as they are known. We've had it in place for a couple of years, and until Blogger made the chance recently without telling anyone, it's worked well. Unitl now.
So we're making a change and dropping the word verification requirement, on a trial basis. That's likely to mean that we get a whole lot of spam. So we're also going to turn moderation on, which will allow us to filter out the tross and publish the proper comments. It's not an attempt at censorship and all genuine comments will be released (even those from anonymous trolls), but you won't see the spam-bots' handiwork. We're at our computer for most of the day, so there should only be short delays between when you comment and when it appears on Keeping Stock.
We wish everything had stayed as it was, but such is life. At least this should make commenting easier in the meantime, while we evaluate the results.
We look forward to your comments!
8 comments:
Good move Inv. HP doesn't have word verification and as she sticks with it she doesn't seem to be too afflicted with spam.
Cheers pdm; but Homepaddock is a Wordpress blog, where the system is somewhat different. I have considered changing over.
In the meantime I've just killed the first piece of spam, which looked as though it may have been written in Russian or some similar script...
I would think really hard before I made the change KS. I started on WP and found it very user unfriendly and moved to blogger.
For what its worth, I have the same problems in deciphering the two "words"............
Try my solution Robert; I've only had one spammer so far, although I suspect there'll be a stack in the morning; the Google bots seem to visit in the earlyu hours of the morning!
So I shall.
Stewart, I've used WP and find no problem with it in terms of user friendly. Both the version they host and the self-hosted version.
Wordpress is a much more sophisticated blogging platform. That gives the blogger much more control but with that goes a steeper learning curve. Wordpress has more sophisticated spam filters and the option to choose the spam filter you wish to use.
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