Adjustments to Comments
There is a slightly new look to the site. A pop up window for comments, which I think will help anyone who wants to post, as you can flip easily back to the blog and check a post. And now I am forced to have "word recognition" as part of posting a comment, to block out the evil computer moron spammers who have recently glommed on to me to post shameless and stupid ads in the guise of personal posts - only to come off as posted by someone with severe head trauma on heavy duty pain meds typing in the dark to whom English is a second, possibly third language.
Well, no more of that.
Anyway, I take it as a good sign!
Well, no more of that.
Anyway, I take it as a good sign!
posted by Phil | 9:38 PM
15 Comments:
Sounds good to me! I haven't been hit too hard, but if I see it becoming an issue, I will also add word recognition. Didn't know that was a feature on Blogger. Guess it is new. Thanks for pointing it out!
Yes, I like the ones that sound like foeriegn diplomatic translators who've been hit in the head with a lead pipe after chugging four Mai tai's. "Great blog you happy nice writer check out difficult time?" "What the F?" You're a definite target, as I'm sure you get i high hit count and that's what they go after. I run another blog too, liberal politcal rant, and we got hit there first at "http://www.burnedoutparanoiddemocrat.blogspot.com" So now word verification in place. It really works.
what did you do to set up that ant-Spam comments thingie here? I am in dire need of it now
Hey Phil! I can leave a comment! Yahoo!
Great site and love the comedy vs drama post - I tend to think in character and dialogue for me is a lot about rhythm, like jazz, I need to hear a beat of someone talking for the humor to come out - comedies are not all about a ferret grabbing you by the crotch - humor has rhythm, that's what I've always believed.
I set the up at my blog recently, too, after seeing it on Purgatorion's blog. To enable it log into Blogger, go to CHANGE SETTINGS, then 'Comments' and select Yes for 'Show word verification for comments?'
Another cool thing on Pergatorian are the funny phrases people make up to go with the random characters they have to enter.
baplxxs
Beautiful artists? Pulease! Lame xenophobic xylophonists suck.
I've noticed the word verification thing popping up on more than one blog. I don't get enough traffic on my blog to worry about it. If that ever happens I'll add it too.
Joshua: spoken like a true playwrite. Yes, to me too, comedy has rhthym, like music, which is why one of my most hated notes is "trim" because you have to completely adjust the length, but try to keep the "music" as you try to keep the comedy. And I got your email, will be getting back to you on it.
Moviewquill: awful answered you!
writergurl: I'm sure it's only a matter of time. As Dylan said "everyone must get blogged," or was it spammed?
Funjoel: meant to respond to your first post here. I'm sure it's just a matter of time until your spammed by the big computer monster, too!
I remember a time when I thought spam was a good thing. I lived with my Granny one summer, and she would occasionally make me a fried SPAM sandwich for lunch. I remember them as being delicious. She was very poor, lived on nothing but her Social Secuurity check, and at the time (not so these days) SPAM was cheap. So, to make her dollars stretch, we had SPAM and baloney a lot. I didn't care, I was 10 and with a person I adored. Funny, how, nowadays, "spam" and "baloney" are such negative terms when as a child they were literally what I lived on.
writergurl: my mom points out how we swipe cards at every store when we check out, and how "swipe" in her day was a bad thing. Interesting how language changes from generation to generation. One can use that in writing to orient a person in a culutre, or in their generation; there must be a comedy scene where a grandmother and grandchild are using the same exact words in a conversation, but as they have completely different meanings, they just can't understand one another!
It must be the writer in us that will notice and use these changes in our langage. Trust me, all I get is a shrug when I attempt to talk about these sorts of things with my friends. Sigh.
Yeah, that would be a funny scene...
"someone with severe head trauma on heavy duty pain meds typing in the dark to whom English is a second, possibly third language."
Sounds like me. For a writer, writing in the second language is a pain. A pain. As you can imagine, I am sure.
Nevertheless, I do my best to replace the missing form by content.
Melville, Switzerland
melville: hope nothing was lost in translation, I was referring to the automated computers (isn't that redundant?) who spam many of these blog sites once they display popularity. It's all about getting the sale in America, and since cold calling was pretty much ended by the "no call list" that went through congress last year (two years ago?) spamming has taken a new and urgent turn for the worse as ever more vendors are desparate for ever more customers.
I thought spam was illegal there as well? Hasn't there been a high profile court case there lately?
There was something a bit back, but didn't come to anything as there was no federal action taken. It seems simple enough to slap the vendors that benefit from spam with the same disheartening fine of thousands of dollars if any spam directs back to them, to shut the whole system down. But as our current congressional system seems only primed to wage war and pay for it with pretend dollars, this legislation will clearly have to wait.
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