A Minor Inconvenience

There's been a lot of blog "comment spam" lately - comments which have no purpose but to publicize the spammer's unrelated commercial site. I've deleted more than a few over the past week or two, and it's getting annoying.

To manage this, Blogger has added a "word verification" option to Comment posts. This will simply ask the commenter to copy a word, which automated spam programs can't manage to do - you may have encountered this sort of security before on sites like Ticketmaster. I've decided to implement this feature to see if it's effective. Meanwhile, I apologize to any real commenters for the minor additional effort this adds to posting.

Thanks!