Hey, folks:
As some of you know, my first blog was hit by two sets of bot-spam a couple of years ago. [More than 550 irrelevant comments were posted overnight on 2 separate occasions.] The second prompted me to close that blog and start this one.
When I began the new one, I set it up so that I had to pass muster on each comment before it would appear. That method worked well until recently because I was almost always home and online.
Since I've moved to Florida, though, things have changed. I'm away from home more often and simply not in a position to monitor comments as I used to be.
For 1100+ obvious reasons, I'm not willing to leave the comments completely unprotected--so I'm turning to you. I know I hate to type in the verification code [it's almost always rejected the first time tho I'm certain I typed it correctly (rrrggghhhhhhhh!)] and, I imagine you're not fond of it either. But I'm setting it up here anyway.
I beg your indulgence and patience when blogspot doesn't accept your code. Please blame those folks who have nothing better to do than bot-spam blogs-- and please keep posting those thoughtful comments the rest of you leave here. They are very much appreciated one and all.
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two crows
I appreciate your reason for setting your site up this way. i hope I am never bothered like you were. That double verification is annoying but I just thought it was a glitch. At any rate it is no biggie.
I don't know how you initiated it but now you have me curious as to whether or not I inadvertantly hit something on my own Blog because lately every story I write I have to rtype the code even though I put it in right. Do you have any thoughts on that?
hey, AP--
first, my spam blocker got over enthusiastic [again] and bounced the email you sent me. I retrieved it from my mail-jail and has landed in my email server now.
xxx
I imagine the fact that blogspot doesn't accept the verification code is a glitch. and, yes, it's annoying.
xxx
I'm not sure what you mean in your 2nd paragraph. I know that when I publish a post, I don't need to type in a code to get it to publish.
do you have to do that? if so, I'm sure there's a way to turn that option off-- but I don't know what it is.
TC, I think this is an improvement. Bots can't get by it, and you'll get more comments.
I know exactly what you mean about the word verification being flaky, but what can you do?
2nd attempt. :-(
hey, Tom--
I'm not so sure about getting more comments. the reason I set it up the other way to start with was because I did the work rather than making commentors do it.
but with my social life picking up, people were beginning to wait hours, sometimes, before their comments were posted--and that wasn't fair to them.
either way is bad-- but the bot spammers make things bad all round.
Tis true. They do. Sometimes oommentors comment on comments. Now they can see them as soon as they're posted. :-)
I guess you can always go Haloscan but so far I have decided against that as well.
It's really a shame that the internet has come to this.
I wish some group of galliant Robin Hood type hackers would just obliterate these spammers.
ok, Poli--
I keep thinking I'm up on the latest tech then someone comes along and bursts my bubble.
what the hey is haloscan?
Haloscan is an alternate comment engine to Blogger's. I think Mentarch uses it.
Hey I love verification codes!
hiya kvatch--
wish I could say the same.
but it's that or put up with the bot spammers.
maybe I did something at my last blog to hack someone off-- I still don't know. I'm pretty sure it was the same person both times.
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