Update to our update.

I am sorry to say the new security measure using the sentence “What is color is the color orange” decided to stop working and lock up all comments. It seems it stated after entering your comment  it would state “that comments were closed”. I am hoping after deleting this measure the comments will be working again. If not please use the contact me button on the left and let me know. I hate to have to lose anybodies comments because of these DAMN Spam Bots.

For now I will have little to no security measures  until I can figure this out. I have tried every comment system out there and many will not work with this Word Press theme. I would love to use Commentluv or Disqus but unfortunately they are not configurable with this theme.

Again my apologies, Glenn

We are aware that sometimes the word  CAPTCHA that was being used for comments and member sign ups would sometimes either not work,  acted strangely or required posting three or four times in order to make a comment or to become a member.

We eliminated the CAPTCHA today for 30 minutes and unfortunately during that brief time period we got hammered by over 30 spam bots or approximately one every minute.

KILL THE SPAM BOT!!!!

So we are trying something new for all comments that will hopefully eliminate the CAPTCHA and avoid the pesky Spam Bots. There is now a security question that should do the trick. (By the way the answer to the question is Orange. The question is: What color is the color orange.) Pretty tough huh? But I guess it is enough of a deterrent to eliminate the bots.

Thank you as always for all your great comments and feedback. We enjoy and cherish each and everyone. If you are encountering any problems with the new security measure, please drop us an email by using the red contact tab located on the left side bar.

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About a month ago I added a strict spam filter on comments because I was getting overwhelmed on monitoring them, etc. The filter however I find out, would not allow anyone to register on this blog, duh. I thank Jessica for pointing this out to me, and am happy to say it is fixed.

I appreciate each and every comment and those of you who would like to register are now able to and will speed up the comment phase on this site, along with giving you increased access to the back panel.

This is a DoFollow Blog, which means to those who are not familiar is this. 95% of blogs are nofollow, basically that means when you make a comment it is not linked back to your blog. A DoFollow blog will link you back to your blog, which helps you in your quest to get a better page rank. The reason most bloggers do not use DoFollow, is the worry that some of the sites that leave comments are not “good” sites and can harm their blog in the eyes of Google.  I check every comment and the site it comes from. So those of you who work hard a building their blogs, I love to pass on this good karma. Please be patience if some of your comments take awhile to be shown, as some days this process can take awhile.

I also added a new format in the comment process that will add any bloggers last post into the comment you are posting to,  to help draw more people to your own personal blogs. Again my apologies. Cheers Glenn

PS the bird is there cuz I liked it