Blogger’s updated, more difficult word-verification gizmos (aka CAPTCHAs) are tedious at best. At worst, they’re unreadable. As The Real Blogger Status points out, enlarging with Command-+ or Control-+ can make the CAPTCHAs more readable. But a Blogger user might do the reader a greater courtesy by turning off word-verification. That’s now possible only from the old Blogger interface: go to Dashboard, Settings, Comments, and scroll down to “Show word verification for comments?”
Just saying no might lead to an influx of automated spam comments. I turned off word-verification yesterday and have seen more spam comments in a day than in the past two or three years. But I moderate comments, so the spam never makes it to my posts. If deleting the junk saves a reader from having to work out something like the enigma below, I’m happy to do it. If the spam becomes unmanageable, I’ll no longer be able to avoid CAPTCHA.
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Yay! The last couple of times I tried to comment here, I kept getting the captcha wrong and finally gave up in disgust! Now I can comment freely...
Some people are convinced that even getting the words right doesn’t work, that there’s a bigger problem. For now, at least, the problem’s gone. Comment away!
Thank you, thank you! The weird waviness (is that a word?), the multiple requirements, and the frustrating red ink refusals are an unnecessary evil in Modern Life....or so I hope!
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