where's the beef? here's mine

Yes, here is my beef for the day.

Anti Spam Words. Word Verification. Non-robot verification.

You may or may not know what those are and if you have them, you may or may not know who you are. This is an option that most blog sites have in regards to comments left. A person leaves a comment, then has to 'prove' that he is not a spammer or automated robot by rekeying in squiggly looking numbers, letters, codes, etc <----- most of these are really hard to read. Yes, the point, I get it.

But I HATE them.

Please take them off your blogs. I'm on my hands and knees here. I'm begging. They are so annoying. They slow me down. They're nearly impossible to get the first time. Sometimes it takes me 2-3 times to get them right, call me an idiot, whatever. But in my opinion, they are useless. In my year and a half of blogging here and on myspace, I have gotten a total of maybe 3 spam comments.

Thuh-ree.

I have near 100 visitors per day, and in all my experience of blogging, there have been three teeny tiny little comments (I think all in foreign languages) that I simply deleted with the click of the mouse.

Now, there's another option. You can set up your blog account to 'hold' a new comment for you until you read it and approve it, allowing it on your site. To me, that requires more work and inconvenience than just simply disposing of the comment verification altogether.

Now obviously, if you've had lots of problems with this, I gracefully say, "Carrie on then, carrie on", like Neville from the fig newton commercial back in the 80s-90s...you know, the one where the English Mum comes into a room to find her son eating fig newtons in bed.

"Neville....I thought I said no eating cookies in bed."

"It's not a cookie, Muthah, it's a fruit newton!"

"Oh...carrie on then, carrie on."

I realize it's your call, and as I mentioned earlier, some of you don't even know you have it set up that way on your pages. I mentioned it to a friend a while ago (hey Allison, what's up?) and she immediately said, "yeah, I hate those too!" Umm, yeah....she totally had one on her blog and didn't even know it.

So. Get rid of them. They bother me.

There's my beef for the day.