I always get so excited when I see a new comment on a post, eager to find out what my online friends have to say. I value your words and the time you spend to read, comment, offer insight or suggestions.
But lately, more of the comments have been unintelligible spam, not words from actual readers. If the spam was articulate, interesting or even amusing, I wouldn't worry so much about it, but this spam is awful and obviously written by someone who has zero grasp of the concept on how to construct a sentence that makes any sense at all.
I used to have this blog set up to require word verification to post comments, but for some reason, the verification words blogger uses are generally impossible to read.
I won't do that to you guys. It's frustrating to have to go through three or four verification screens because you can't quite decipher what it says! And eventually, if you're like me, you just give up after the 3rd or 4th failed attempt and leave no comment at all.
So, instead, I have enabled comment moderation. I will check frequently to approve and publish comments as quickly as I can, but, it's the only thing I can think of to do to stop the really annoying spam.
Please bear with me as I try to keep up. If your comment doesn't show up within 24 hours after you post it, I'm probably out riding!
Or digging my horses out of the mud. :)
Happy Trails!
Jenn
Approving comments really isn't that big of a deal - and now that you've turned it on, you'll have so much more sympathy for when your comment doesn't immediately appear on other people's blogs! ;) I only feel guilty when I go out of town - approving comments on my phone is such a PITA that I just wait til I'm back at the computer to do it.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping it won't be that big a deal for me...heck, it might make me post a bit more often if I'm having to log in more often. :)
ReplyDeleteI favour Moderation to verification. Much less frustrating for the commentor!
ReplyDeleteI agree. While it will be a bit more work on my end, that's no big deal. I just didn't want to make it too frustrating for commentors. :D
DeleteI've seen those dumb comments too. Jibberish!
ReplyDeleteSome of them make absolutely no sense at all, and others are kind of amusing in the use of broken English.
DeleteNo Big Prob, Jenn!
ReplyDeleteMore Than Half Of The Blogs I Visit Have Moderation For Comments. SPAM SCHWAM!
I Did Figure Out Though...In The Word Veri( Or What Ever It's Called Now) No Need To Do The Letters And Numbers. Just The Letters Works.
Is It Drying Up There Yet? How Many Ponies?
KK
The spam has gotten really bad over the past couple of weeks, I don't know what changed, but the spammers found my little corner of the internet and invaded. Ugh!
DeleteWe just got about 3 more inches of rain Sunday (and my husband got my truck stuck in the pasture, grrrrr), so we are still good and muddy. I'm down to four ponies now. One is still for sale, the other is leaving in May to move to Colorado.