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I get your point DD. And I'm going to remove it from my blog right now.
lol..I always have to REtype the dang thang! 
Hi! Thanks for your kind comments on my Blog! And I have to say, I am sooooooo much in agreement with your post on darn Word Verification......I took mine off ages and ages ago.
And up till now I have never, ever suffered from spammers, and as you so rightly say, if they comment, well I just delete them!
Quite a few blogs I visit, have the WV on and it drives me crazy. All sponteneity (not sure I spelled that word right!) has gone.
Why, oh why, do people bother with this nonsense. It drives me up the wall. The other thing which makes me Blog Crazy, is people who have darn passwords and stuff just to get into their comments and complicated internet stuff which just makes me give up and not bother.
Oh I am sooooo glad you had this post, I would like to highlight it on my blog sometime.
although in defence of some friends who have had it.....until I told them it was bugging the hell outta me, they did not realise it was on their blogs.
I get them all now to check out their settings or whatever to make sure it is off.
Phew, some comment there I guess.
Sorry but it is one of my pet hates!!!
love and light, Jeannie ;0)
Yes!
Not only is word verification an annoyance and inconvenience, it's out and out descrimination of the blind and visually impaired! Even an audio option besides, can't help the deaf-blind over the hurdle, so word verification doesn't block spam, it punishes the visually impaired as "spammers" and as "non-human" at that. So many times sites are simply inaccessible, and it's degrading for someone with a visual disability to have to resort to begging a site admin or the nearest sighted person for help every time they want to do something on the web and that damned captcha visual code is there, taking away their independence and sense of dignity as well. There was a time before captcha, when everyone could register, post comments, add friends etc. and forum admins who wanted stiffer moderation, set up their sites to notify them of new submissions they could accept or reject. Other sites used an email-back confirmation, where you could prove you were on the up and up by giving your email address, and replying to their emailed confirmation message. This was and should've been enough to keep spammers out. But now, there is captcha, blocking out innocent people, and spammers still get through.
So, a big kudos, I'm adding your site to my favorites, and posting a link to it on a few other sites. Everyone who knows me, agrees that captcha code is one of the worst inventions on the net along with chain letters and other spam itself, captcha is the cure that's worse than the disease.
I hate it too!!Thats why i dont ahve it on my blog!
But I have to keep those hateful anonymous commenters away so i had to change my settings.How do you prevent them from coming by ?
There should be a setting where you can review and either approve or deny comments, and I've seen some services that allow registered commenters to post freely but anons must be reviewed on moderation.
Hi,
nice to meet u, came by way of jeannie's blog...and i dont like the word verifacation either...i always have to do it twice...lol and i know i put it in right in the 1st place....
Peace,
Claudette
Word verification doesn't bother me. I'll take the extra five seconds.
Maybe it doesn't bother you, but it's worse than a bother for people with vision problems. It literally discriminates against them, barring them from sites. There are new captchas out now that are accessible, I hope they will eventually replace the image codes altogether. They ask you to solve a simple math or other question "What's 2+2?" in plain text so you can read and answer it even if you are visually impaired.
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