"I've changed the antispam settings. I hate having to do that too, and seeing it's only registered users that can comment here I figure it's probably safe"
I want to open this up for some discussion as to what the best method for this would be. Sue has a point in
that when comments are open up to everyone (including anonymous), there is a higher probability to receive spam comments. I had the thought that if we don't open the comments to all, it would be like only serving communion to "members". What do you think?There is always the option of opening the comments to everyone and then requiring word verification. This would cut down spam to almost nil (giving that there is always a chance that it can get through). Also, contributors to the blog are not required to use word verification when commenting on posts.
What are your thoughts?
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Well, I hate word verification and never use it. And my blog is open to comments from anyone, including anonymous users, and in the year I've been blogging I have only had a couple of bits of spam. It's just not worth it.
But of course a blog that generates more traffic is probably open to more spam, I imagine?? I've always wondered about that.
I don't mind the idea of opening to everyone but I vote that we leave word veri off for the moment and see how we go. If we get too much spam, we can slap it back on but I really HATE having to type ktoeofpb after every bloody post.
Just my two cents adjusted to one cent to fit into the new economy :)
Um...I can't seem to accept my invitation to be a contributor to this blog!!! Every time I try to respond and type in my username and password, it says there is an error and blogger cannot complete my request. I have a blogger acct!!! Is there something that I am missing? A trick I don't know about? help!!!
Kari, can you go into your account page and make sure everything there is kosher? I am not sure why it won't work, not being a techie.
i have always left my personal blog wide open for any and all comments to make it as simple as possible for people to come and share. i don't really care that much about spam as it hasn't been TOO much of a problem in the past. with as many admins as we have here, i would think we would be able to catch it and delete it quickly. spam does happen, but i trust people to know not to accept blind links from strangers. didn't your mother ever tell you that? :-)
have we been having a spam problem i'm not aware of? or is this just a preventative measure?
For the first two years I had captcha on and it worked great. I had no spam. For almost a year I have had it set to "registered users", that is anyone who has a blogger, wordpress or openid, only closed to anonymous comments and I've still had no spam.
So I have no problem with it either way, but I think we should leave it open unless we start having trouble with spam or trolls.
Sue, you're a contributor, so I'm not sure why you are getting the captcha when you comment. Are you logged in to blogger at the time?
Anyone else know why that might be?
Kari - Could this be the problem you're having with accepting the invitation? If so, it's a known issue and there's a workaround.
In my Blogspot blog I never had any problem with spam - I think I had it set to a captcha comment for unregistered users. That seems the best way to go, I think.
WOO HOO!!! Thank you Erin! I'm so glad others can compensate for my lack of technical capability!
Glad it worked, Kari. That's why we are siblings here in the kitchen, rather than it being a "church". If this was church, I would have simply said "I'm sorry. I'll pray for you". LOL!
LOL Erin :)
Leave it open.
Seems like the consensus is to allow comments for anyone. Admins, please keep an eye out for SPAM so that we can get rid of it in a timely, authoritative, and destructive (whoa sorry) manner.
you got it, chief.
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