I really dislike Word Verification. There. I said it. It's not that I dislike the people who use Word Verification for posts on their blogs - they are super nice people, I'm sure! I just really hate typing those stupid non-words, and I hate to admit it but sometimes? I just don't bother commenting. I too fear spam on my blog but I just use the moderation option instead. Makes me sound like a lazy bum doesn't it? lol
Alright, that's my two cents for today. What's your opinion?
I also hate WV. It doesn't deter me from commenting but it is annoying. I completely understand it on blogs that get dozens of comments a day, but on blogs that only get a handful, it seems a bit lazy. Plus, all the spam I ever get on my blog comes from real people who can fill out WV.
ReplyDeleteI waffle. I recently turned off word verification, but did not choose the moderation option and had viagra spam within the hour. I've always used WV, but maybe I will stop since I don't even get a handful of comments...then again, the whole premise of my blog is that I'm, well...lazy. lol.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know it was optional! Can you switch it off or only get rid of it by selecting comment moderation?
ReplyDeleteHmmmm....I had to go check and see if I had WV on and I DID! The horror! Don't hate me...I turned it off! ;) I don't even remember turning it on.
ReplyDeleteI hate it too, though at least Blogger's word verification is pretty easy to pass. I suck at those:D
ReplyDeleteI don't use word verification or moderation, because I have not experienced any serious spam problem yet. I've got some random comments to some random posts, but that's all. I think it's silly to use those tools if you have not had any problems with the spam. Why trying to correct a problem you don't even have? I think that often people just use those tools just because everybody else is too.
I hate it, too, especially since it doesn't just show up first. You make your comment, think you're done and then wv shows up. I admit I have given up at that point occasionally.
ReplyDeleteI don't get enough spam to worry about it. I just delete it when I do. I'd rather take a second to delete spam than to make people who are nice enough to comment go through all that annoying stuff.
I don't like it one little bit. I always think I'm done posting a comment, and then that little box pops up, and I have to get all squinty to get it right. Is that an I or a T? And then I get it wrong, and I have to do it over again. UGH!
ReplyDeleteIt's optional? Didnt know that. I am going to have to figure out how to turn it off.
ReplyDeleteIt really is irritating! Sometimes it pops up late and I've already clicked off thinking my comment went through and it hasn't. Bummer.
ReplyDeleteI moderate comments on posts more than a month old. It seems to weed out spam nicely.
I like to moderate all the comments because it always come in to my mail box and I can reply to people straight from there. :)
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