Saturday 21 January 2012

New Year's Resolution


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22 comments:

  1. Sorry about the SHOUTING text, but this is what seems to happen when you copy and paste the material above. I was speaking in a very calm voice, actually. I've already tried to alter it a few times, but - like I say - life's too short.

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  2. I hear you Tom. The word verification is antiquated. Blogger has a built in anti spam now that works brilliantly. The only people that have left comments on mine that were uncalled for were the Man who Hates American Women and a lone Chinese person who commented on 20 posts advertising for whoever she worked for, and then apologized at the end for leaving an "uncalled for" comment.

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    1. It is easily by-passed, Raz, and I have long since stopped being targeted by the Chinese sex-merchants, who I think Blogger has got rid of, with the help of the People's Republic.

      Come on everybody, just set your preferences to the 'no restrictions' option, then deal with any problems as they arise. It's not as if any of us are super-stars, is it??? I hve never yet barred any blogger from using my site, but I have disallowed 'anonymous' comments after being harangued by a right-wing looney who pretended to be ex SAS, just because I objected to the excuses for the invasion of Iraq.

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  3. I cannot believe that I have tried to give Elegance advice about a technical matter bothering her about Google, only to find the message "Your comment will be visible after blog owner approval'. FUCK THAT!

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    1. Can I have rice and prawn crackers with that please?

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  5. Thank you kindly for your advice re Picasa Tom, and taking the trouble to use the secret password that Google and I have spent hours, nay years, perfecting. I shall have a word with the Fat Controller as I really don't want to upset my faithful blog-friends.

    Strangely that filter has never bothered me when I've left comments on the blogs I visit. Come to think of it, the only times I've left harmless sarcastic or slightly negative comments they've been on blogs with no filter and immediately attracted a huge sycophantic and troll-type outburst brown-nosing the blogger and fulminating against me,(which I quite enjoyed). But it goes to show that the internet is an arena open to the world's nutters and their diabolic spawn and I'm wary of attracting them to my blog. Though I suppose I could just delete them?

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    1. I think you have just answered your own question, Elegance.

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  6. I detest word verification too. I think people do not know HOW TO TURN IT OFF. If I can learn to auto post surely they can learn that one skill.

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    1. There's word verification, and then - to add insult to injury - there's 'blogger approval'. Who the hell thinks they are so important that they need to vet their own comments?

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    2. I do not have that anymore. I had it for reasons of crazy, crazy family members who would say anything to anybody.

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  7. I agree, Tom, Word Verification is a total pain. I've gone into Google Search. It seems that there is a word verification button which can be disabled on the old interface but not on the new interface as yet. I switched a while ago to the new Google interface and have not yet sussed how to go back on to the old one to turn it off. As for being hacked, once was enough. If it happened again I think I'd just pull my site down and that would be it.

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    1. I never know you were hacked, Moll. Does that explain all your offers of free Viagra you sent to me a while ago?

      Turning it off is easy - believe me.

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  8. Lord knows it's a bother right enough. It's enough trouble to leave a comment in the first place, without having to verify the blighter as well.

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    1. The only reason that I don't bother to moderate comments is because I can't be bothered to read them in the first place, Mise.

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  9. I don't like it either but I recently (and very reluctantly) put in word verification after almost three trouble free years without it. A few weeks ago I suddenly started getting spam, but worse than that I was emailed by a regular reader to say that when she tried to go to my blog she got a warning message telling her my site was dangerous! Moi!

    I'm not bothered by the odd bit of spam but I hated the thought that my little blog was unclean. Infected! A leper among sites! So I put in word verification which is bloody ridiculous because I'm lucky if I get more than half a dozen comments at a time.

    I may take it off again and see what happens.

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    1. Always read the sell-by date on your tin of Spam before dishing it out to others, Judith. It's been around for quite a while, and those black-marketeers have no scruples whatsoever.

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  10. I've never had the Chinese pollute my driven slush, but I do get other buggers sending EMAILS about how to enlarge my (ahem) manhood. I sent the money, but the length of string and 5 pound weight that I received, have so far not worked.

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    1. There's a joke along those lines, and the punch-line is, "Well, it's gone black already!"

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    2. So, you were in the Lower IVth form too!

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  11. Late comment (again - some of us have to work up chimneys on Saturdays you know).

    I looked at the Stats bit of the admin of my blog the other day (so I could have a good cry) and saw that there were a few referring URL's looking at the site at once. About 500 hits in one go. Even John's blog doesn't get that!

    These sites were trying to hack into my account:

    www.justforlaughsgags.tv
    t.co/aH7Qjwuy
    adfocus.us/198121

    It's worth looking at your stats page everynow and agian to see where any traffic might be coming from. If you seem to have a lot of readers from China or Russia for example...

    I work with computers everyday for a living, believe me ANYTHING you can do to add extra security to your site is a bonus.

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    1. Oh, all right then. I'll carry on leaving annoying comments on your blogs.

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