I have had word verification (where a commenter has to enter a more or less random sequence of letters in order to comment) turned off for a month or more. I have decided that I need to turn it back on. Sorry about that, those of you who comment.
I hate to do anything to discourage comments, and word verification does that, but I also hate to deal with "nice site" and other apparently meaningless comments from anonymous users, or spam -- that is, advertisements for products or other web sites.
Please keep reading, and commenting.
Musings on science, the Bible, and fantastic literature (and sometimes basketball and other stuff).
God speaks to us through the Bible and the findings of science, and we should listen to both types of revelation.
The title is from Psalm 84:11.
The Wikipedia is usually a pretty good reference. I mostly use the World English Bible (WEB), because it is public domain. I am grateful.
Oh goodness - - - I'm sorry spammers got through. I haven't had a single one since Blogger put on their spam protection.
ReplyDeleteWell - - - I did have ONE that was obviously written by a real live person sitting at a real live computer (live computer?) but that would have gotten through even with the word veri.
Thanks for typing in whatever you did, Keetha.
ReplyDeleteHm, I was considering turning off some of my anti-spam protection. I'll resist the urge ...
ReplyDeleteTake care & God bless
Anne / WF
"reldne" -- I'll need to type "reldne".
(Btw I've seen sites that are crowd-sourcing imagine-to-text translations to let hackers get past captchas ... wonder what's next?)
* Er, "image-to-text", obviously ...
ReplyDeleteIt might have worked for you, Weekend Fisher, but I was getting some Anonymous comments that were inane, (nice site, etc.) rather than advertisements for some site or other, and it took some time to delete them.
ReplyDeleteI turned it off last week and think I need to turn it back on too ... I'm getting around 30 "ad posts" a day that I have to mark as spam.
ReplyDeleteI think it does take a few weeks to "train it" though ... so i'm going to stick it out for a bit longer.
That was my problem. You have more traffic than I do, by far, but it was still an aggravation.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment.