A brief note today to apologize for comment weirdness happening on the site. Recently I've had to add the Captcha verification stuff when people want to comment (which I hate doing) because I was getting hit with hundreds of spam emails that I had to go in and clear manually. And now, for whatever reason, comments that are NOT from spammers are getting dumped in my spam folder. This happened earlier in the week on the Caitlin Moran post, so many comments were delayed. So sorry about that. I'll see what I can do to fix things so when you comment, the comment appears immediately.
In the meantime please do continue to comment--the comments are usually the most informative part of this blog, after all. Thanks!
In re Captcha -- which I confess I do hate -- I read a chirpy little article yesterday in the proverbial "somewhere on the 'Net."
Anyways, the article promised us that Captcha would soon be a thing of the past, because programmers were working on a new system to replace it.
In order to post a comment, you see, all you would have to do is watch a little advertisement, or type in a "well-known commercial slogan."
Sort of put things in pespective. If I have to choose between puzzling out a nonsense word, or forcing myself to type "Things go better with Coke!" ...
... well, all of a sudden Captcha is looking pretty good, that's all.
Posted by: hapax | 21 February 2013 at 10:50 AM
Oh gosh, I bet that was a chirpy little article. That's one of the reasons I can't read Mr. CR's Wired magazine--lots of good stuff there, but it often seems unfailingly chirpy about the future and technology--including things, I'm sure, like "just watching a little ad" to comment. That sounds horrible.
Captcha it is--thanks for understanding.
Posted by: Citizen Reader | 22 February 2013 at 09:58 AM