Snoskred – Life in the Country

It is that time of year again – November 1. I’ve just started my NaBloPoMo commenting challenge and I’ve found quite a few blogs I commented on during last year’s commenting challenge already, how cool is that? I like to do things backwards so I began at the letter Z.

Are You Missing Out On The Fun?

If you have not already signed up for NaBloPoMo but you want to take part you might want to wander over and sign up now.

You can also see the blogroll for NaBloPoMo 2007, or check out the NaBloPoMo Randomizer which will take you to visit random blogs.

There is also a group for Australian Bloggers – The Aussies.

I can’t believe an entire year has gone by since I found so many wonderful bloggers during the last NaBloPoMo. It’s wonderful to be getting out there and looking at blogs which are completely new to me again.

However there is one downside – Blogger and the Word Verification thing again.

A tip to bloggers who are using blogger -

You’re not going to get spam if you turn word verification off, however you are probably getting a lot less comments with it turned on because often it makes me retype in the words 3 or 4 times – I *almost* give up. The spammers are far too busy targeting WordPress blogs. This blog is less than a month old and already TanTan Noodles has blocked 1278 spam comments. Akismet has blocked 202. I never saw any spam like this when I was on Blogger.

Captcha Word Verification

Blogger users will be familiar with Captcha word verification, it looks like this -

The reason it is exists is to stop spam bots posting comments on your blog. However it could be stopping regular human people from posting on your blog. You only need to turn word verification on when you’re being targeted by a spam bot which is extremely rare on Blogger – as in you’ll be getting a boatload of comments in a very short amount of time – and this will stop the spam bot from posting more comments. May I recommend you turn it off in the meantime? Especially if you moderate your comments before they are posted – no spam comments will be posted because you won’t allow them through, right?

Julie Pippert recently posted about having trouble with Captcha and if you read her post you will see you might be missing out on comments if you’re using it.

Excellent news many of us have been waiting for – you can sign up for NaBloPoMo 2007 now. What is NaBloPoMo? It’s National Blog Posting Month – in November, many people will participate, posting once a day every day on their blogs. Join in and be a part of the fun! And if you sign up my profile is here, be sure to add me as a friend.

I didn’t get to participate last year, I found out about it on November the 3rd. Make sure you don’t miss out like I did last time!

Is anyone up for a NaBloPoMo commenting challenge? Let me know in the comments.

Edit to add – I made an Aussie community there.. Aussies feel free to join!