World History
Word Verification on Comments from Blogger. I am very pleased that Blogger is now allowing the option of requiring word verification on comment posts. Since I have turned the comments back on at the World History Blog, I have had to manually remove about a dozen obvious spam comments relating to stock tips, viagra, mortgage loan rates, and an advertisement for a bookstore in Canada. I believe most (if not all) of these were automated spam created by spambots who took the time to create a Blogger account first.
Not anymore! The spambots should be unable to get past the word verification trap. This is a great tool. Thanks Blogger. If you have a blog on Blogger, you can do this as well but you have to manually turn this feature on first to use it.
From the site:
What this does is to prevent automated systems from adding comments to your blog, since it takes a human being to read the word and pass this step. If you've ever received a comment that looked like an advertisement or a random link to an unrelated site, then you've encountered comment spam. A lot of this is done automatically by software which can't pass the word verification, so enabling this option is a good way to prevent many such unwanted comments.
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Word Verification on Comments from Blogger
Word Verification on Comments from Blogger. I am very pleased that Blogger is now allowing the option of requiring word verification on comment posts. Since I have turned the comments back on at the World History Blog, I have had to manually remove about a dozen obvious spam comments relating to stock tips, viagra, mortgage loan rates, and an advertisement for a bookstore in Canada. I believe most (if not all) of these were automated spam created by spambots who took the time to create a Blogger account first.
Not anymore! The spambots should be unable to get past the word verification trap. This is a great tool. Thanks Blogger. If you have a blog on Blogger, you can do this as well but you have to manually turn this feature on first to use it.
From the site:
What this does is to prevent automated systems from adding comments to your blog, since it takes a human being to read the word and pass this step. If you've ever received a comment that looked like an advertisement or a random link to an unrelated site, then you've encountered comment spam. A lot of this is done automatically by software which can't pass the word verification, so enabling this option is a good way to prevent many such unwanted comments.
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Ah, I love the holidays. I get to spend Christmas, New Years, and various free days off from the university with my family. It is relaxing and gives me time for writing and blogging too. And, I get to delete an excessive amount of comment spamfrom this...
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Over the years, I have become very protective of my comments. They have been targeted as prime spam space by many spammers and I still have to delete many spam submissions. One of the rules I enforce is that links to others sites almost always result...
- Comments Policy
I have decided to be less restrictive on the comment policy on this blog. I will now allow anonymous comments. Here are some rules that govern their approval: 1. Comments with links to other sites will be assumed to be spam and deleted. If you feel you...
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I have had difficulty the last two days in accessing Blogger. In fact, I have made two posts which were "eaten" by Blogger and vanished. I have recreated one and republished it. It is the one that deals with punishment in pre-revolutionary America. I...
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