Blogger offers word verification spam blocking.
If your blog is plagued by spam (Squarepants, this means you), you can use word verification to stop it.
What this does is to prevent automated systems from adding comments to your blog, since it takes a human being to read the word and pass this step. If you've ever received a comment that looked like an advertisement or a random link to an unrelated site, then you've encountered comment spam.This is the same system used for many website registration pages, requiring the poster to type a weird looking word in order to continue. Readers, what do you think of this idea? Is this such an onerous procedure that it would prevent your posting? I don't want to reduce the traffic, but stopping spam sounds like a good idea.
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I don't think it would be too bad as long as the weird looking words aren't so weird that you can't identify the letters. I have encountered that on some websites and had to repeat the authentication several times because it just wasn't clear what some of the letters were.
I'm not a big fan of the captcha. I don't know what it is about them, but I have trouble reading them most of the time.
Maybe I'm a replicant.
(However, I am sick of the comments spam. It's a good thing I'm such a comments-watcher that I usually catch them within a few hours.)
I think that is a terrible idea!
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just delete the spam as it shows up, unless it becomes some huge problem.
I second Tom. It requires us to use many more keystrokes every time than it takes you to delete a post occasionally. Though I'm sure we loyal readers will understand if spam's a big problem for you.
BTW did you start all those counters at zero at the same time? Looks like a fun experiment. What have you learned?
Actually, I don't have much of a spam problem, so I won't be implementing this tech. But I thought some of you might be interested.
The hit counters were started at the same time, that's true. But some of them count my hits and some of them don't, so that's one of the reasons why some are ahead of the others. It is kind of like a race, though, and I have left them all there as an experiment. I also found out that sometimes a free service just punks out and you have to reset, so my plan now includes triple redundancy.
you jinxed yourself!
Oh my, how apropos. :-)
Oh man, I have to leave that one there for posterity. :)
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