Kool Kitty Musings: Trying to find a happy medium

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Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Trying to find a happy medium

For blog commenting.

Wow, word verification has become very sensitive on blogs - it's almost like attempting to crack the enigma code when trying to work out what on earth the jumble of squiggles in the captcha box is trying to say.

And the Typepad word verification is no different...

So in an attempt to find a solution that works and allows visitors to my blog to hopefully comment more easily I've disabled word verification.

If the spam comments get too much I may have to go to moderated comments, but we shall see.

I really love getting comments on my blog and hope the decrease in comments over the last few months has been down to word verification woes rather than sending people to sleep with my witterings. ;)

Who knows? <g>

Posted by Handmade by Natty at 09:08 PM | Permalink

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I took mine off a few months back and have only had a few spam comments. I think it really does put people of commenting so I've found it worth the pain of deleting the odd one.

Posted by: sharon | Wednesday, 29 August 2012 at 10:09 PM

i like your witterings :)

Posted by: j | Thursday, 30 August 2012 at 03:23 PM

Thank heavens there is at least one person out there that does, J. ;)

Sharon glad to hear the spam content isn't too bad - I've already had the first dose of spam today, but even with WV on I used to average two a week - now those must have been some persistent spammers!

Posted by: Handmade by Natty | Thursday, 30 August 2012 at 06:12 PM

I think the WV deters people who may genuinely feel like leaving a comment rather than spammers. I know it drives me insane sometimes to the point of giving up...

Posted by: Carole | Friday, 31 August 2012 at 09:43 AM

The wv definitely puts me off - I have visual impairments anyway and trying to decipher those awful codes - nine times out of ten I walk away from those blogs without leaving a comment.

I have my blog set so that I approve all my comments via email - it means I never miss any and have only had two lots of spam in three years.

Love your blog by the way even if I don't get to comment much.

Karen x (Badgerleader on UKS)

Posted by: Krafty Karen | Friday, 31 August 2012 at 05:51 PM

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