Comment Experiment -- Please Help

Thanks to all for you for your wealth of observations and advice on my last post about balancing the greatest access to commenters while trying to block spam. If you want to see the results, please go back to the last post and check out the comments.

Some of you use word verification, but my own experience with that on other blogs makes me hesitate. The Blogger verification is especially hard to read, I think. I would rather not use that barrier.

Some of you use comment services that require registration, like Lifefyre or Disqus. I don't know if those are available on Blogger, but before making more radical changes, I would like to experiment with the Blogger options.

I'm still not sure I fully understand option #2, which allows comments from registered users (registered for what?), including open ID. A couple of folks thought this was worth a try.

So for this post only, I'm going to try it. I'm turning off comment moderation also, to see what will turn up in terms of spam.

This is how you can help me. Would you please leave a comment on this post? It doesn't have to be substantive. You can just say "test" or "hi" or anything. Since comment moderation is off, your comment should appear right away. If you are unable to comment, please email me so that I will know that some folks are blocked by this option. My email is galenpearl@gmail.com.

Thank you for helping me give this a try. I so appreciate my readers and I want to make commenting as easy as possible.

I'll get back to regular posting next time.

Many many thanks.