My title references, of course, the sweet statement of the Indian man who complimented my son at Walmart this week that I told you about...So kind. And unexpected.
You might have noticed when you post comments to your classmates' blogs that you have to type in a security word before your comment will show up. Most of the time it's a jumble of letters but sometimes it's a real word or phrase. This is mostly to prevent computers from leaving comments on your blog to promote a company's websites or other things like that, to ensure that an actual human is leaving you a comment. I personally hadn't gotten many computer-generated spam comments on my own blog until lately. I guess I don't really see it as a problem, and many people find it annoying to have to do this extra, seemingly pointless, step to leave a comment. If you'd like to disable the need to do this on your blog and make commenting faster and easier, just go to the Design link at the top of your page, click on the Settings tab, then Comments, then scroll down and click "no" on the "show word verification on comments?" section. You are, of course, welcome to make other changes or none at all.
I did read an interesting article about sometimes when you're given a word to verify in a situation like this that it's actually one from an old or even ancient text that scholars are trying to translate. Take a look at the story...fascinating. I've been noticing a lot of numbers in the word verifications for our blogs, like pictures taken of address signs on buildings and houses, it looks like. This leads me think that we are doing deciphering work for Google Maps or something...
As you finish making up your missing posts and doing the new work for this week, take some time to visit your classmates' blogs and let them know you've noticed what they're putting out there. I've been seeing lots of good stuff...
You might have noticed when you post comments to your classmates' blogs that you have to type in a security word before your comment will show up. Most of the time it's a jumble of letters but sometimes it's a real word or phrase. This is mostly to prevent computers from leaving comments on your blog to promote a company's websites or other things like that, to ensure that an actual human is leaving you a comment. I personally hadn't gotten many computer-generated spam comments on my own blog until lately. I guess I don't really see it as a problem, and many people find it annoying to have to do this extra, seemingly pointless, step to leave a comment. If you'd like to disable the need to do this on your blog and make commenting faster and easier, just go to the Design link at the top of your page, click on the Settings tab, then Comments, then scroll down and click "no" on the "show word verification on comments?" section. You are, of course, welcome to make other changes or none at all.
I did read an interesting article about sometimes when you're given a word to verify in a situation like this that it's actually one from an old or even ancient text that scholars are trying to translate. Take a look at the story...fascinating. I've been noticing a lot of numbers in the word verifications for our blogs, like pictures taken of address signs on buildings and houses, it looks like. This leads me think that we are doing deciphering work for Google Maps or something...
As you finish making up your missing posts and doing the new work for this week, take some time to visit your classmates' blogs and let them know you've noticed what they're putting out there. I've been seeing lots of good stuff...
I rather enjoyed that article, i chuckled on the inside a bit.
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Haha, that's awesome! I would honestly never think of that.
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