For those curious to know if since removing my word verification, have I received lots of spam comments? I am really pleased to let you know I have not *insert happy dance here*. I think I have had 2 spam kind of comments since removing the word verification, kind of meaning I don't know if they were just bloggers who didn't bother to read my post or spammers, you know the ones who when you write I had a bad day my cat died and I am in such emotional pain the comment is "yay love the post, please be sure to visit my blog". So if you feel it might benefit your readers when it comes to commenting (like I did) to remove the word verification, I am glad to announce spam won't be much of a problem.
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I took off my word verification about a year ago and have had very few spam issues. I do get those sorts of blogger comments, which are Quite frustrating...because I feel like they're missing the point of blogging, at least in my eyes. But, I've only had 1 or 2 instances of true spam and it wasn't bad at all! Definitely worth not having the word verification in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteI agree! those kind of comments really do frustrate me, glad i'm not alone.
DeleteI am so happy that you took the word verification off. Some of those images were close to impossible to read. But happier to know no spam!!
ReplyDeleteI prefer managing the little spam I get than turning away true comments.
Trust me it annoyed me too, I just thought spam would be of a concern because on my wordpress domain it was, but I'm thrilled that it isn't.
DeleteI agree with Claudz...that word verification is an absolute nightmare and sometimes I am on my 10th try until I get it right....LOL!!!! I am not a blogger, but as someone who works online and is on their emails most and part of the day SPAM is a big pain in the butt!!! Great blog post, as I enjoyed reading it...keep it up Meg ;) xxx
ReplyDeleteSpam can really annoy you, I too work online all day everyday and spam sometimes really knows how to get under my skin haha
DeleteI'm delighted! I hope it encourages more people to turn off the word verification. It's the only thing that ever makes me reluctant to leave a comment. I actually groan when I see it pop up because it's always impossible to make out! So yay for no spam!!
ReplyDeleteMartina
That's my sole purpose of the post, to say word verification isn't really needed on blogger:)
DeleteWord verification can be a pain- good for you for doing a little research and taking control over it! :)
ReplyDelete-Ashley
http://lestylorouge.com
Always have to try to make commenting better for my online friends, right?
DeleteI've found blogger to be pretty great about filtering crap. Sometimes I still get email notifications that "anonymous" commented some total bull, but those don't usually show up on my blogger dashboard anyway.
ReplyDelete<3becky
www.loosefromthezoo.com
I switched my anonymous comments off, that has helped a great deal.
DeleteI really don't have much trouble with it either thank goodness!!
ReplyDelete-Jamie
ChatterBlossom
So glad to hear that :)
DeleteThat's awesome! It was terrible on wordpress.
ReplyDeleteYeah I agree. Blogger seems to be better at blocking spam.
DeleteI don't get spam too often without word verification on, very happy about that!
ReplyDeleteand all you readers agree! ;)
DeleteI also removed my word verification but I added in moderation in allowing the comments to be published and thankfully I have only had one sort of spam message too ;)
ReplyDeletex Nats
You have to always figure out what works best for you.
DeleteBlogger is generally really good at filtering spam, I barely had any when I was on Blogger but the minute I swapped to Wordpress I got over 3000 spam comments a day until I found a plugin that stops it now I might get 1 or 2. Never go back to captcha though!
ReplyDeletexoxo Abby
Please let me know what plugin you use, really happy you don't have captcha.
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