Don't know what CAPTCHA is? CAPTCHA is that image that you see with scrambled letter and/or numbers whenever you are going to post a comment in most sites nowadays. It is used to verify that the computer through which the comment is being made is handled by a human instead of a bot. This, in turn, helps to weed out spammers from actual followers. But it seems that it also deters people from commenting at all.
The wonderful ladies at the Vampire Book Club were asking their followers to voice their opinions on the matter. Apparently, the topic on how much people dislike this feature has been doing the rounds on the net with an impressively big number of bloggers, articles and videos on how to get rid of this feature. I'm sorry to say that I was oblivious to it, so thank you Chelsea for that great post.
Some CAPTCHAs are simpler than others, some are almost impossible to read. I have to admit that when the CAPTCHA is too difficult to read I give up on commenting altogether. My question is, do you?
For the time being I have disabled this extra step from my blog to see if it makes any difference when it comes to new comments. Still, I will love to know your honest opinions on this feature and whether or not you are happy to see it go. Please answer the following poll and express your opinions on the comments section below.
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I think there have only been one or two instances where I've given up on commenting on a blog because of a Captcha. I know that a lot of people don't like them so I have that feature turned off on my blog and I've only gotten 1 spam comment since my blog has been up. (Lets hope I don't completely jinx myself by writing that.
ReplyDeleteThanks for commenting, I've personally only gotten one comment that was marked as spam, but it truly wasn't. One of my followers commented twice on the same post with a similar line and the program thought it was spam.
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