Well, I have finally installed a word verification plugin.
"But Father! But Father!", some of you will say, "What about a ministry of welcome?"
Respondeo dicendum, "Tough."
I know, I know… I dislike them too, but the bottom feeders are sending lots of pretty vile referral spam. My filters are catching it, but it is a pain.
As a compromise, I found a verification plugin which allows me to modify the words used in the images.
Perhaps we’ll have a little fun with that.
Finally, I have found that if you register for the blog, you don’t have to go through the word verification. I suppose you won’t see what words I have in the verification queue that way, but you will not have that extra step.
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Love it! I won’t say what mine was, but it’s what we’re all waiting for. Now you’ll have me checking in a lot just to see your line-up. *not that I don’t already do that*
But Father! But Father!
Actually, I have nothing really to add. I just wanted to say “But Father! But Father!” :) (I did it again!)
I do in fact like the new word verification.
Regards,
Stu
Some of your words seem to be too long — “Missale Romanum” looks like “Missale Romanun” — part of the ‘m’ is cut off. Unless you really did mean “Romanun”? ;-)
If only you could find a way requiring a poster to type a word like “consubstantialis” without your telling them in advance how to spell it. That might insure that only Real Catholics post here. (Please, don’t anybody get twisted around about this. I don’t mean to imply there are any non-Real Catholics posting here now.)
dcs: Thanks!
UPDATE:
So far…
SPAM: 0
Can we have a prize for providing the next few words to whichever prayer you’ve extracted the verification from?
Oh – whoops – not always a prayer.
Father,
I saw one blog that showed an Anti-spam security word — but the letters were Greek! There was a small note saying it was just a joke.
Just thought I’d share!
If only you could find a way requiring a poster to type a word like “consubstantialis†without your telling them in advance how to spell it. That might insure that only Real Catholics post here.
The anti-spam word shown was “Introibo ad altare De”. Being a Real Catholic, I naturally adjoined the final “i” that had been cut off by narrowness of the window. But I was bounced back, and in order to post had to type it wrong (as though I don’t know how to spell Dei). Hmm … reverse effect?
If only you could find a way requiring a poster to type a word like “consubstantialis†without your telling them in advance how to spell it. That might insure that only Real Catholics post here.
Re-checking. Bingo! You do have to act like a Real Catholic and adjoin that final “i” that’s not shown in the anti-spam window. Excellent.
Henry: While I appreciate the idea that maybe I was that clever, the real reason was that I simply made that pass key too long for the window. Still…. that is a good idea. Sort of like a shibboleth.
thing is, it’s emcouraging me to spam you…. ‘anaphora’ this time … what next …?