Defeating Comment Spam

Blogger users may not yet have noticed that a new ally in the war against spammers clogging our comments. From your dashboard, click “Change Settings,” click “Comments,” turn on “Show word verification for comments?,” click “Save Settings,” and republish your blog. From then on, comments by automated systems will be unable to navigate the graphics-based pass code. To see what it looks like, click the “comments” line on this post (you don’t actually have to leave a comment).