The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!
Monday, April 9, 2018
Comment policy change
A number of readers have complained that verification on comments (at present, Google uses image recognition) has become ridiculously onerous. That's outside my control, unless I stop using it; so let's run an experiment.
I've switched off verification for comments, but also switched off anonymous comments. That means, if you want to leave a comment, you'll have to be signed in with a Google account or OpenID. I hope that will prevent a surge of spam comments (which is why I implemented verification in the first place; however, a few still got through, even with verification enabled).
Let's try it that way for a few days. If it works, great. If not, or if spam comments become too much, then I'll have to think of something else.
Peter
Can you see me now...heh.
ReplyDeleteThat's what I did back in 2013. Spam comments dropped from 200-300/day to basically none.
ReplyDeleteI'd think this should work for you.
Sigh... Here we go again...
ReplyDeleteSounds like a deal...
ReplyDeleteWhat ever works best.
ReplyDeleteHey Peter;
ReplyDeleteCan you see me now??LOL
What a pain in the ass, between the storefronts, cars,bridges and signs to leave a post.....sheesh
And now for a post so that I can find out who I am. Hey ... you could make a movie subplot out of this ...
ReplyDeleteI have not had the image verification in awhile. Not sure why, probably because my google account has two-factor auth on it.
ReplyDeleteFortunately I have a Google ID, though for a while, I couldn't use it on Don Surber's blog. Google cancelled my e-mail addy, and I had to make up a new one.
ReplyDeleteCool. Captcha or whatever is always double or triple prompting me. Have a heck of a time decoding the image for some reason.
ReplyDeleteThanks
The last few comments I left on this blog, I no longer had to solve any puzzles, clicking on "I'm not a robot" was enough. This was regardless of whether I signed under my Google account pseudonym or as Anonymous. It probably helps that I'm signed into Gmail in another browser tab. I don't have "two-factor authentification" activated, however.
ReplyDeleteIn any case, Peter, just do what's most convenient for you.
Testing Testing 123
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