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I have turned off the word verification under Comments as it was driving me (and many of you - I heard you!) nuts. 

However, that means we have no spam filter.  I hope this won't become an issue. 

I also hope to hear from Blogger about this issue.  I did Google the issue and many other blogs are not happy so I hope they choose another way to block spam.

My apologies for the irritation.

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Anonymous said…
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2/23/12, 10:17 AM
dw said…
I fear that spammers will eventually make things unbearable for the admins, but thank you for changing this, if only as a temporary reprieve (I couldn't comment at all, was never able to get a single comment through).

The old method seemed to work reasonably well. Not perfect, but people who wanted to comment could do so, and it appeared (to a non admin) that while some spam crept through, it wasn't debilitating. Is it possible to use the old system, or did google just kill it?
2/23/12, 12:35 PM
Melissa Westbrook said…
DW, still trying to figure that one out.
2/23/12, 1:20 PM
dan dempsey said…
I think it must be how one views these words...

I had trouble only a couple of times ... but I did have to take an interesting look at the words.

Perhaps this is some alternate kind of Rorschacht testing, so Google can learn even more about us.
2/23/12, 1:45 PM
seattle citizen said…
I missed the (slight) fun of playing with Word Verifier's "words," but don't miss those recent, crazy two-word (one illegible) messes....took me three or four times to get it right. Which suggests I'm due for another eye exam, but still...

Word Verifier USED to say dseyefrme...
2/23/12, 5:41 PM
seattle citizen said…
I missed the (slight) fun of playing with Word Verifier's "words," but don't miss those recent, crazy two-word (one illegible) messes....took me three or four times to get it right. Which suggests I'm due for another eye exam, but still...

Word Verifier USED to say dseyefrme...
2/23/12, 5:41 PM
seattle citizen said…
oh, reat, now it's posting twice! I didn't hit "publish" twice! I swear!
2/23/12, 5:41 PM
Anonymous said…
I can't say I found it fun but I did feel a slight sense of achievement when I sent it and it went

n...
2/23/12, 6:55 PM
Anonymous said…
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2/24/12, 6:29 AM
Anonymous said…
I got spam from an old thread 2x already.

-Irritated
2/24/12, 3:05 PM
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