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Purnendu
from Pune |

We see many blogs especially the ones on Blogger having a captcha for blog comments .. Personally I feel it very annoying to fill the captcha everytime for commenting and sometimes I just dont give a comment if I see a captcha. 

While I understand that it is for spam control but I do not understand why a Comment should be both captcha secured and moderated? Can't the blog owner take some pains to look at the comments and moderate them instead of passing the buck to the reader ?

What do you think about it ?

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Ritvik Gautam
from Bangalore/Ahmedabad |

Seriously, When I genuinly want to comment, and if I see the captach, I almost feel like to not to comment.  I mean it's actually very annoying.Yell And the thing, that the characters are getting difficult to understand day by day. I sometimes have to retry for about 4-5 times. 

I think captcha should be removed, comment moderation is still fine. I don't understand the use. One can actually go through all the comments and remove the spams manually. I urge all the bloggers to remove atleast the captcha.

PS: I don't have captcha or contect moderation on my blog. I even allow Anonymous comments. Smile 

Purnendu
from Pune |

Oh ! So characters are getting difficult for all .. I thought my comprehension was going for a toss these days Laughing

indu chhibber
from Kota |

I agree with both of you---the characters are often weird & waste precious time.

RioZee
from Out of this yEt in this World |

thank god my eyesight is still rocking. I clear captcha's in first attempt.

Ritvik Gautam
from Bangalore/Ahmedabad |

Don't tell me that you have passed all types of captcha in one go... 

Arti
from Mumbai |

Blogger has the automatic spam detection in place that takes care of most of the spam comments. Those that still pass by can be moderated manually. In such a scenario, captcha codes and all are nothing but a total waste of time for your reader.

I am thankful to Mohinee and Zephyr that I removed word verification fron my blog long back and there are absolutely no problems with the way things are w.r.t. spam comments right now.

Gayathri
from Chennai |

I agree.. what's more lame is it says, "Prove us that you are not a robot!" Come on! I am sure Google can think better..!! Undecided

Kirti
from Kharagpur, west bengal |

EXACTLY!! it is so LAME!! 

Purnendu
from Pune |

I wrote this post in a fit of frustration. Was trying to comment on a post but th captcha was so complicated that I just couldnot read it even after refresh. FInally I did not. Whose loss was it anyway ?

Stephen
from Raleigh |

Well to be frank thats just irritating...

Micky Fernandez
from Kolkata |

I do not prefer things that I can not read, and it is often extremely difficult to read those things.

Kirti
from Kharagpur, west bengal |

I seriously HATE this word verification thingy. thankfully DS told me to remove it from my own blog some time back because i know how irritating it is to type all that before publishing your comment. and i dont like comment moderation either...

umesh derebail
from Mumbai |

I have long removed captcha and word verification feature from my blog, it is a real pain with Discus and slow network connections

Purnendu
from Pune |

I hope more bloggers see it and remove captchas from their blogs :D 

Nirati
from Mumbai |

One of the bloggers I follow, just mentioned this on her blog.If they have captcha, that's to keep away spam, right? Then why even have comment moderation?Only captcha makes sense. Even though its irritating.But if you are moderating, you can delete the spam no?Having both is stupid =| 

Roopa KM
from Kozhikode |

i hate captchas...People like me who love to read and comment find it irritating...I have read a few people's blog posts saying the same.Usually if the captcha is too complex, lazy bugs like me will leave it by just giving a vote on inidvine

Nagini
from Chennai |

The captcha modification can be easily done in the old blogger interface.....happy blogging..:-)