Friday 28 December 2012

I'm Sorry ...

... but I have to change my "comments" settings.

I know that the strange letters are not easy to read, but I am suddenly getting a deluge of spam that I am having constantly to moderate and delete, so I'm going back to the system where the strange letters have to be typed into a box in order to block the spammers. I'm doing this very reluctantly, but feel I have no alternative.

My thanks to those of you who comment on my blogs. It's good to know that you are there and that I am not just speaking to myself.  I do enjoy your comments and through them feel I know a little bit about you. But I also recognise that reading the letters in the box is far from easy and all too often what we type does not match up, so I quite understand if those of you who have posted comments in the past feel that you can no longer do so.

11 comments:

  1. Quite understand...I do struggle a bit but get there in the end.

    I'm having problems of a different sort....stalking... so I'm leaving my regular blogs and moving to another site. I'm going to ask people to e mail me for the address as I'd hate to lose contact with people who have become, in a way, part of my world.
    It's bound to put some people off, though.

    and now for the wonderful words...!

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  2. Hello Fly, thank you for understanding. So sorry to hear about your problem. One of the other bloggers I read had a similar situation - so sad. Certainly I'll be happy to email you - don't want to lose touch. :)

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  3. Bad luck, Sue. I'm managing to stay word verification free but I know other bloggers who have had to give in and reinstate it. I'm one who finds it hard to decipher but I persevere.....

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  4. Hello Perpetua, good to hear from you. It was something you wrote some time back that made me stop using word verification and I hate having to go back to it. But I really feel I have no choice. I quite understand if you don't drop by much in the future - though I will miss you. :)

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  5. Word Verification is no problem for me and if it helps you - fine.
    I have no Google/Blogger a/c no URL only my name and email address and have, therefore, been unable to comment on some other interesting & readable sites that in the past I was able to add my 'twopennyworth'.
    I can only hope that this stops your irritating spam.

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  6. Hi Lesley, thanks for your message. Glad you have no problems with the change. I must say it's lovely just to have genuine messages like yours pop into my email inbox, so I know it's on the blog, without my having to go through and clear out all the spam as well. :) Shame though that we have to "tighten up " the security - oh for a world without spammers! :)

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  7. Oh, it won't stop me reading and commenting, Sue, though it definitely takes me longer. :-) I'm just sorry you find it necessary. Spam is such a nuisance and I get my share, though thankfully Bloggre's spam filter seems to catch it all and it doesn't make it onto my blog.

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  8. What a nuisance for you!! I'll always read and post too-I just press and press until I can actually read the 'code word'.

    I really enjoy your writing.

    A wonderful 2013 to you and your family. :)

    Maureen

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  9. Hello Maureen, thank you for your encouraging words. :) Glad too to hear Christmas went well for you - lovely to be home early. :)
    My very best wishes to you too, for 2013. :)

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  10. What a bore for you.
    My blog is Wordpress - purely by chance, that was the first reccomended to me, and they seem to do a really good job of cutting out spam, I've only once had a comment that wasn't genuine. What I can't understand is why the spammers bother, surely they don't thyinbk that a message that my post needs improving is really going to tempt me to click on their site?

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  11. Hi Victoria, Happy New Year. When I first saw Wordpress I thought their security was a bit OTT - if I remember I had to give my email to leave a comment, but now I think that level of security is a good idea. I suddenly had a whole flood of posts that were complete gibberish - sadly I think once one is "in the spammer system" it's hard to extract oneself.

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