BOB's Tuesday Toast - 1/7/14

Here’s to those bloggers who do NOT moderate their comments -

May they reconsider the option - ;))

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It seems to me that the Spammers are getting more creative -

And they seem to like leaving weird comments on older posts -

With links to who knows where - ;))

I think that Spammers are counting on -

Bloggers not checking their older posts and comments -

And are trying to sneak them in there when we're not looking - ;))

For some reason -

They seem to like my little blog - ;))

I seriously doubt that I have THAT many fans -

In some of those countries listed in my “Audience” stats - ;))

But I/we do have options -

I limit my comments to “registered users” -

I “moderate” my comments -

And I have enabled “word verification” - ;))

I discussed “registered users” before -

And talked about the difference between -

A Google Account Profile -

And a Blogger Profile - HERE - ;))

I started to "moderate" my comments -

When I first started my blog -

Simply because I didn't get many comments -

And I didn't want to MISS one - ;))

Now it turns out that it's not such a bad idea - ;))

It allows me to read ALL of the comments -

BEFORE they get published -

But even then sometimes I can't decide -

If a particular comment is Spam or not - ;))

And I have noticed that more and more blogs -

Have gone back to having "word verification" -

Even Bonnie Hunter has it now - ;))

I have always thought that it was there for a reason -

And that any "hassle" is minimal -

Compared to the Spam -

That gets through -

Despite Blogger's best efforts - ;))

And the next time you see the “word verification” box -

Click on the last icon -
The question mark -

It has some interesting information -

Especially that last part - ;))

Instructions

Please enter the words you see in the box, in order and separated by a space. Doing so helps prevent automated programs from abusing this service.

If you are not sure what the words are, either enter your best guess or click the reload button next to the distorted words.

Visually impaired users can click the audio button to hear a set of words that can be entered instead of the visual challenge.

Still need help? Contact us

Helping the World One Word at a Time

By entering the words in the box, you are also helping to digitize texts that were written before the computer age. The words that you see were taken directly from old texts that are being scanned and stored in digital format in order to preserve them and make them more accessible to the world. Since some of the words in these texts are difficult for computers to process, we are using the results of your efforts to help decipher them

Sure makes sense to me -



And I’m beginning to think - that it’s not just me - ;))