Word Verification

I'll be perfectly honest with you, I really do not like word verification. When I'm bashing out a comment to give to someone, and say hello and then I have to stare at some letters and try and decipher them. Well, it isn't fun. Especially not at this early hour of the morning. It irritates me when the smudge I believed was an l turns out to be a k. A k?? Yes. That's what I thought.

I understand the word verification is supposed to prevent robots coming to get me. However, on my old blog, that I had for just under 2 years I received about 2 weird comments. That doesn't seem very frequent. It was in the good old days when word verification wasn't automatically put onto blogger blogs. And then I just deleted those comments. So no harm done! I'm still here!!

Let us comment freely, with the fear of evil robots gone!You may say, what's the problem with just putting word verification on, just in case? The problem, my friends, is inconvenience. And if you all get eaten by these robots because of me, then I do apologize - at least we will know the truth, and the reason for word verification.
Actually Heather from the popular The Secret is in the Sauce blog posted recently on her own blog about saying no to word verification.

That said, there are obviously two sides to the story. Apparently some blogs get terribly spammed, and have to put it on. Anyway, those annoying letters can actually also be beneficial to us, and most excellent at cheering you up.

For example, have you ever been stuck for a word to say? Bored of lol, tired of supercalifragilisticexpialidoicious, you need look no further. Nip over to a friends blog, and (whilst commenting) take note of the word that you must type out. You may as well memorize and use it when you have the chance. Use instead of a swear, use to fill the uncomfortable silence!

Also, childrens names. Sometimes, when my pregnant sim gives birth on sims2, suddenly I am stuck for a name. I need only press Ctrl+Alt+Tab to minimise the screen and have a check on my favourite blogs, and their word verification feature. No, little russian Reikinc and his sister Dinfuntr do not get teased at school. Other great names would be Subegmat and even Ansymi (She lives just down the street). If you comment enough you may even find a name suitable for a real child. Looking for something exotic? Try Siall, Comprago and Outoto.

The final perk is when the squished up, messed letters spell something real. I've had a 'disco ' once. I've also seen a 'weirdo'. Good times, good times. Definitely cheer you up material.

Have some fun commenting. Feel free to make up your own mind about word verification. The lesser of two evils? A hilarious perk? Or an unecessary vexation?

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Do you now want to test out some cool word verification words? At just a quick glance into my followers box (and more hot blogs list) the culprits (or saviours???) are:

• MemeLove
• curious girl
• BookBitten
• Tour Guide by Day, Writer by Night
• FeedMeBerries
• Couture Carrie