This is getting RIDICILOUS!!! I've tried, this morning, to leave comments on some of my Blogger Buddies blogs...NOW...there's not just ONE word I have to fight, but TWO!! See that black sploch? Try reading it on the blogs! This one was pretty easy but you should have seen Some of them! Impossible! I blew this example up so you could see it! THEN, just when I think I've got it entered correctly, I click post comment and inevitably it'll tell me it's not entered right and to start OVER! Mostly, it has taken me three to four times to get it done...I just don't have the time!! I LOVE ALL my Friends, You KNOW this...BUT, I'm BEGGING you! IF you have Word Verification turned on, DUMP it! I think, and I'm not alone, that it's really killing people who would love to leave comments but, don't have the time, if you have to spend 5 minutes or more just to say something, it's not going to happen.
Go visit Your friends and see for yourself....If you don't want to change it, I'll understand. I promise.
It's been a morning folks...going in for coffee...
21 comments:
Oh Donna, I have JUST experienced this two-word (sploch as you say!) verification on a friends post and struggled four times to get my comment published. Then I read your comment on my blog and although I saw you struggled to comment, I still didn't connect the two. I came over here to apologize to you and there I see this is a universal blogger problem. No, I will deactivate my word verification as well. Please don't stop visiting my blog. I love seeing you and returning the visit. Blessings and hugs Jo
THANK you, Donna! I have been fighting this ALL day and was hoping I wasn't the only one that couldn't read these darn things! It's soooooooooo frustrating! I don't want to have to cut down on commenting but this may make it happen. :(
Totally agree! I have it turned off. I wish they would do away with the whole thing!
Ladies.... Isn't it just Awful?? Blogger must have changed things last night to the new format...I think they're going to get tons of complaints about it! It looks like Google is having a field day changing what was NOT broken!
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You read my mind. I was thinking about doing a post on how horrid that new word verification thing is. I had to keep resetting to try and get one I could read and it was impossible. I don't know why some people are so dead set against getting rid of it. Blogger has a good spam filter and I haven't had one get by since I took off word verification.
Ann, I Know! I have Never used it and have had maybe 3 comments left on my comment box in 5 years of blogging, that I simply, erased...Now, Blogger has a Spam button you can check...No Problems!
In looking around on new people's blogs, if they use it...I just move on...
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I know, right? Just now I clicked on a blog I very rarely visit, and there it was: two words. I didn't get them right, so it came back and said "Please prove you're not a robot." WHAT THE HECK!!!
I've never used it either, and haven't had a problem in the 9 years!!
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Sally, Prove ur not a Robot??? Omg.... No troubles here Either!
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Thanks Donna, I appreciate you telling me, I hadn't realized. I dumped it.
I despise the capcha's. I had trouble last night on one blog and had to do it four times. I was furious! From now on, I am going to ask my blogging buddies to turn it off or else I won't be commenting. It is just too hard to read the darn things. And the spam filter has worked beautifully so the word verification step is no longer necessary.
Thank You Irene!!!! I think a lot of people don't realize how bad it's become...
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Donna, it's just too hard to do anymore!! You're so right, the filter works great!
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I don't like the word verification either. I think its turned off on my blog - but I'm headed to make sure its off!
I hate those things too cause I never seem to see them right and keep having to do it over. I lose patience pretty quick too.
Donna, I just turned mine off. I've been having trouble reading them on other blogs. Mine blog doesn't have Word Verification now, but I did activate Comment Moderation for older posts.
I've had some crazy things posted in my comments, and just recently two different people posting Ads! I just think it's rude to post an advertisement in comments. Oh, by the way, would you like to buy something from me? Lol!
Anyhoo... please keep visiting me and leaving comments! You always brighten my day! *HUGS*
Did they just put this up or what?I hate it, hope it is not on mine.
The fuzzy shot was an old man cactus I believe.
Just came across my first and left a forthright comment about it. There's absolutely no need for two words with one half blotted out. It's stupid!!!
Donna, before this, there has been a movement in blogging, to stop Word Ver. I agree with it. I hate, hate, hate word ver.
now, people say it is even worse.
Only one way to fight it. refuse to comment on blogs, which make us do it.
if anyone needs to be careful with their comments, let them do the process of pre-reading all comments, before publishing them.
why should we have to jump through hoops, just to comment?????
Let's get more vocal! Let's sweetly say, like you did, that we just don't have the time to do the weird comment ver. stuff. Be sweet but firm.
please.... let's say so, on our blogs. please...
Isn't that annoying??? Man I hate word verification. I should check my blog ... not that I have posted in a decade lol...thanks for your little kick in the pants the other day, I will post soon!
I so agree! Really...The blogger spam filter does a great job of stopping spam so far I've had no problems at all and I have word verification turned off! I absolutely HATE to do word verification!!
Even before this went into effect, I could not comment on blogs with W.V. because I do not use blogger...kind of glad that they changed because now everyone is seeing what a butt head W.V. is.
i moderate all comments on my blog, and I dont THINK I have word verification on it. Sometimes may take me a while to go back and approve all comments, but this really cut down on my spam. If I have word verification, Let me Know!
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