Here’s the one that seems to get a lot of bloggers on edge. Word Verification.
Dare I go there? Yes I will.
Does spam exist in blog world? You bet.
Must you institute word verification to stop it? Nope, not at all.

I know that word verification will stop a multitude of people from commenting on a site.
You know, you type out your comment and then hit “post comment” thinking that your comment posted.
Then you get the word verification. Ugh.

Let me tell you something you may not know. Do you know that seeing or not seeing the word verification at the bottom of your comment post may very well depend on how large one’s monitor is?
This can cause someone to think their comment posted when it actually didn’t. I’ve had this happen to me several times. One of the main reasons is because of the pop-up window.
Some of the word verifications come up after you hit post, but some are below the comment box after the small box that says “Post Comment”. If you hit “Post Comment” and do not scroll down past that little box, you’re likely not to see where the word verification is, therefore you assume that your comment posted when actually it didn’t.

Some are so hard to even figure out what you are supposed to type.

I think a mistake a lot of us make is assuming that what we see on our screen is exactly the way others see if on theirs. If you want proof of this, run around the house and open your site on each computer. You’ll be surprised at the differences. I know I was.

So, how to keep the spammers and rude commenters away?
All you have to do is enable comment moderation. That’s all. It’s that easy.
That way, no comment will post to your blog that you don’t see first.
You’ll know exactly what goes on your blog comments, and no spammers can get through you.
And the best part is that you’ll get more comments when you don’t have word verification.
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