Tuesday, January 22, 2008

[captcha] a bullet in your skull








Was there ever a device more designed to make you tear out your remaining hair and shoot the offending blogger than the insufferable, obnoxious, mental-health threatening captcha word verification atrocity?

I mean - zvwyoko - really and truly!! Do you really wish to spend the rest of your blogging days negotiating garbage like this?!! Bloggers want visitors and then put up these sorts of barriers and for what? So that we can sit there thinking, 'Now I wonder what words I can make out of this - I know - Yoko [as in ono, as in ononism].'

OK - for some mickey mouse providers like the execrable Typepad, maybe. But Google blogs do not need word verification in the least - there's an inbuilt system of protection.

Let's start up:

Bloggers Against The Gratuitous Use Of Word Verification In Google Blogs

A nice, short, catchy little name, don't you think?

17 comments:

  1. I despise them too but was forced to put one on for a couple of weeks to get rid of some continuous blasting by some nutcase who spammed me with pages of stuff for a few days, day after day. Apart from that only 3 or 4 over 11 months have had to be deleted which I can live with.
    So what are you talking about when you say Blogger has some inbuilt system of protection?

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  2. batguowvigb - that's my word verifier today.

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  3. I am also not a fan of these, purely because often I mis read the letters and have to type it over and over again.

    It isn't always clear what letter it is they are actually asking for.

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  4. Hi James, so glad you wrote abot these things. Its was something that has been bothering me of late i have never used them on my blog and have only recieved 3 spam posts in all the time i have been blogging.
    But i must point out the captcha system on blogger although i do not like it is much better than the one used on myspace which even when yu type in correctly always says you have got it wrong. SOOOOOO frustrating.

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  5. I don't like them - the Google ones go off while you are typing your comment as well.

    I had some problem with comment SPAM so I put in a simple challenge question. I even kept to the one simple question (2+2=). It is easy enough for people, but manages (so far) to keep the bots at bay.

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  6. Longrider - I know yours and it's good. Wolfie has a nice one too but is currently not working. I hate Typepad ones like Tom's.

    Surely moderation will do the job as well. Touch wood but I don't have problems with no verification, simply because Google does the job.

    I have had it though and just spam it and delete it. If it became a major problem, well yes.

    JMB, Liz, Oeste and Kate - so glad to see I wasn't the only one.

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  7. I have never had those ghastly things. Funny you say so James, but Typepad is by a long way the most infuriating. Blogger is only more annoying, because there are more of them.

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  8. No capthca on Disqus :)

    and it catches the spam and sends it to my email for me to dump or approve

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  9. I have never used them - when I did get attacked once I just put on 'moderation' for a few days and stopped the loony attacking me from having any fun by ignoring him.

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  10. I have abandoned posting so many comments at the captcha stage - normally at the point at which it has given me the third assortment of unreadable letters to type in. I haven't found any need to use it on my own blog to date.

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  11. Do you have to go through this with Wordpress? Why not switch over?

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  12. what I hate is the folks that have word verification (capthca) AND moderated comments...

    it makes me seriously not comment on most topics

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  13. Okay, I'll give it a whirl. Unprotected blogging. Cover me, I'm going in.

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  14. People, it's not unprotected - the google system protects you. Verlin - agreed.

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