31 May 2010

Ummm...Why?

I have to preface this whole post by saying it is generated by curiosity, and I intend nothing other than positive communication from it!

Why do some people have their comments moderated (so they don't appear until approved) and still require those dreaded captcha boxes (where you have to try and decipher and enter letters before it will even accept the comment)? It seems redundant to me. If you're going to moderate it anyway, who cares if it's legitimate before that?

Now that I've said that, I hope mine is set up to only moderate (if not, let me know!). Every comment that is left for me, I receive a notice in my email and go in to choose to accept or reject the comment. Yes, I get plenty of spam. But I'd rather not put the few people who leave legitimate comments through additional hassles trying to pass the captcha tests when I'm going to preview the comment anyway.

Just wondering....

2 comments:

siteseer said...

you're right.... originally I had mine set to just moderate - no verification code. I started getting these crazy computerized messages that I had to delete so I put the verification code thingy in. Don't know if I changed the immediate posting or moderation??? If I didn't then it's just an oversite on my part, but then again I do want to know if I have a comment??? So maybe that's why

The Adventures of Grunty and Chubbs said...

Do I have a captcha test when you leave me a comment on my blog? I NEVER get any junk mail from my blog comments...

Just my 2 cents - I don't mind the captcha thing. I would rather not get the junk mail either.

(And, no, you don't have it.) :-)