I have decided to enable comment moderation and word verification due to a large increase in spam comments on the blog. I realize that it is a bit of an incovenience, and the last thing I want to do is discourage people from commenting, but the amount of spam comments being left on the blog has almost tripled during recent months. I barely have enough time on my hands to even be able to read the legitimate comments and respond to them due to the majority of my time being taken up by work and school. It can be very frustrating to look forward to reading your comments only to discover that more than half of the comments are viagra spam. I plan to see how effective the word verification is against spammers, and if it makes no difference I will disable it so that I don't inconvenience any of you more than absolutely necessary. I apologize for the inconvenience, and I will try to make it up to you by delivering quality music, and perhaps even a major surprise in the future ;)
I wouldnt call it a bit of an incovenience as it only takes a few seconds longer to type in a few letters. I think people will still leave comments.
ReplyDelete@derhet: I'm glad you feel that way. I've noticed that the spam messages have been nonexistent since I enabled the word verification. 5-10 spam messages were being posted per day until I enabled the word verification, and it was very irritating to keep up with deleting them every day.
ReplyDeleteThanks so so much for sharing all these treasures!
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