Dear WordPad/TypePad/Whatevah,
You and your little "Are you human? Just one more step! Type in these tiny letters in bizarro font swimming under nearly 89% opacity freaky pattern and we'll hold a board meeting to decide whether your comment passes muster and can be posted!" routine?
It stinks, like rotten egg cat box level stink.
For the record, shockingly few of us have been through some bizarre accident in which a nuclear waste truck dumps its load on our car, rendering us capable of superpowers such as ability to see through solid surfaces or capacity to distinguish an 'rn' superimposed on one another from an 'm.'
I know this is surprising news. But it's true.
I don't blame your users. They are understandably wary of spam. Frankly, I'm tired of the, "From Geek to Sheik, Super Large for 36 inches and longer" stories that arrive in groups of 40 in my email.
So it's you. You need to change.
I'll try twice to post a comment, maybe 3 times if it's a long one that required me to check a spelling in the dictionary. But then I'll abandon my efforts. You make it too hard. You're coming between me and my favorite bloggers like a mother-in-law from a Lifetime movie.
Ease off the Medieval fonts and slacken off the strange and opaque patterns, eh. Show us some love. Don't make me go all Capulet on you.
Sincerely,
Julie, The Ravin' Picture Maven
P.S. To my lovely readers...I'm off to pick up Patience. From kindergarten, lo these many hours later. I'm still standing, for what it's worth, and I'm sure she is too. I'm getting by with the help of my friends. :)
Copyright 2007 Julie Pippert
Also blogging at:
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You and your little "Are you human? Just one more step! Type in these tiny letters in bizarro font swimming under nearly 89% opacity freaky pattern and we'll hold a board meeting to decide whether your comment passes muster and can be posted!" routine?
It stinks, like rotten egg cat box level stink.
For the record, shockingly few of us have been through some bizarre accident in which a nuclear waste truck dumps its load on our car, rendering us capable of superpowers such as ability to see through solid surfaces or capacity to distinguish an 'rn' superimposed on one another from an 'm.'
I know this is surprising news. But it's true.
I don't blame your users. They are understandably wary of spam. Frankly, I'm tired of the, "From Geek to Sheik, Super Large for 36 inches and longer" stories that arrive in groups of 40 in my email.
So it's you. You need to change.
I'll try twice to post a comment, maybe 3 times if it's a long one that required me to check a spelling in the dictionary. But then I'll abandon my efforts. You make it too hard. You're coming between me and my favorite bloggers like a mother-in-law from a Lifetime movie.
Ease off the Medieval fonts and slacken off the strange and opaque patterns, eh. Show us some love. Don't make me go all Capulet on you.
Sincerely,
Julie, The Ravin' Picture Maven
P.S. To my lovely readers...I'm off to pick up Patience. From kindergarten, lo these many hours later. I'm still standing, for what it's worth, and I'm sure she is too. I'm getting by with the help of my friends. :)
Copyright 2007 Julie Pippert
Also blogging at:
Ravin' Maven REVIEWS: Get a real opinion about BOOKS, MUSIC and MORE
Ravin' Maven RECOMMENDS: A real opinion about HELPFUL and TIME-SAVING products
About-HOUSTON-TX.com: HOT scoop about H-Town!
Comments
Somebody stop the madness!
Oh and I clicked your ads. Happy MCM.
Damn.
Damn.
My site has been up for 11 months. I've been spammed twice! You know.. I deleted it. It wasn't the end of the world after all.
Peace,
~Chani
http://thailandgal.blogspot.com
For the record, I'm up to about 1700 spams caught.
Kate
So glad you and Patience survived day one.
I hope K was okay today.
We blogger users are fairly lucky when it comes to spam. I know wordpress users who are getting 800+ spam comments a day.
Akismet could be deleting legitimate comments too - something to keep in mind. All it takes is one blogger to flag a person as being a spammer and they are flagged as spam across any site using Akismet. So some people do that out of spite. :( They don't like someone who comments on their blog, they mark it as spam - and then that persons comments go straight to the spam bin.
Mine apparently do that. The only way I can fix it is to set up a wordpress blog and take myself out of the spam bin several times.
Snoskred
http://www.snoskred.org/
I have maths spam protection on my blog. Sure, some people might find maths difficult, but 2+8=? has got to be easier than some of those wacky image things!
Hope kindergarten keeps going well!
That's exactly why I got rid of comment verification. Of course, if I start getting spammed, it'll be back lickety split.
And yay for you and Patience. You both rock.
I get an occasional spammer but not often enough to worry about it.
Darlene at daisies@pluckthepetal.com has a word verification feature that is pretty cool. She gets to choose a word when she posts and it isn't all garbled with static and stuff. I don't know what program she uses, but it is one I don't mind at all.