I think though that I'm going to do another test run. I'd like see if the new Blogger Spam Detection will help and if those lurking in the shadows with ill intent have been weeded out by long months of no anonymous release.
We'll see...
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Testing...
During the workshop, we talked a lot about making it easy for people to communicate and how it was good to encourage commenting. I've tried in the past to disable the Word Verification and Sign In option with mixed results. While it promoted commenting, I also got lots of spam and some rather nasty anonymous comments. I threw up every defense possible to keep them at bay short of disabling comments completely.
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8 comments:
Not spam. Not nasty. You are simply wonderful!
will be interesting to see what happens as I'd like to do the same, but every time I've done so, I get overloaded with spam & other nasty stuff. I've enjoyed your blog for some time. Thanks for sharing.
I hope it works out! It's a shame when we have to put so many safeguards in place to keep out spammers and trolls.
Praise the Lord! I would enjoy commenting on a variety of blogs if they would take that damned word verification off. I hope that this experiment is successful for you. Thank you for trying it!
I don't mind the word verification, it's when I am forced to join Google or OpenID or some other system that my commenting stops. Glad to be permitted back -- now all you bad posters, stay away!!
Let me know how it goes! I removed the word verification on mine last week and got so much porn spam INSTANTLY that I had to put it back on. I didn't know about the Spam Detection... will look into it. :)
Good luck, Andrew!
Dear Andrew,
I have enjoyed your blog for months now. You are an amazing writer. It was so good to read how much you enjoyed Tucson where I live now. I really liked reading about places you went and liked as much as I do, such as Little Poca Cosa, Tohono Chul, and the Botanical Gardens. I am sorry that we didn't cross paths at one of the many bead shows. Looking forward to trying some of the restaurants you posted about. Have a good week.
Sandy
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