U is for Unique, yet United

I find it fascinating how a group of people will take a prompt - say, something featuring the letter U - and each find his or her UNIQUE take on it. At the same time, that collection of unique individuals can UNITE to make a most UNUSUAL whole, that being the ABC Wednesday blog each week.

It put in my mind the song United We Stand by Brotherhood of Man [LISTEN], clearly a group from the 1970s, based on their apparel.

The phrase "united we stand, divided we fall" likely came from an Aesop fable, though it has gained a lot of political currency in the past couple centuries.

Oh, if you haven't already, please check out the post UNDER this one, regarding comments.

Comments

Our fearless founder Denise noticed some untoward comments on her blog. So I checked the comments on this blog and found about 500 spam comments, all in the last four months (since 26 Jan 2013, to be precise), and most on old posts, which I have deleted. Only one was porn, BTW.

What to do now?

Basically there are five choices, as I see it.

1. Do nothing. That's not a viable option as I would spend WAY too much time deleting spam.
2. Use word verification. I know some of you use it, and I do understand why you do. But as a personal preference, I HATE WV.
3. Approval of all comments. Seems to cut the free flow of the discussion, and makes more work for me. I do this on my own blogs, and that's effort enough.
4. Approval of comments after so many days, since most spam is on older posts. I have done this; it was 8 days, but I changed it to 15 when I:
5. Eliminated anonymous comments, which is virtually all the problem, by utilizing Open ID, which you can read about HERE. It should work with those of you who are using most blogging products. I hope this is not too onerous. If so, write to me at rogerogreen [at] gmail [dot] com.

T is for

TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA : Fear of the number Thirteen.

Does the Thought of Thirteeen fill you with Terror?

Well, here's a Thought.

Our next round of ABC Wednesday is round Thirteen.

For some Time, the Team has Trusted me to design a new logo/badge for each round.

What should it be for Thirteen?

Here's a Teaser.  Think... Lucky Thirteen!

Tune in soon for more details.

And in the meantime let's see what T inspired Thing you have to share this week.

Thanks,
Troy

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S of Seasons

We have now arrived at the letter S

The S of Seasons
The S of Snow and Skating
The S of Spring  and Swans breeding
The S of Summer

The S of September's Autumn
The S of Spiders

The S of Snow

and Skating

The S of  Spring

and Swans breeding

The S of  Summer

The S of September's Autumn

S of  Spiders

If you take part in this game, please use the letter S in a photo, or in a poem, a story...whatever, and refer to the founder of this meme:Mrs. Denise Nesbitt and Roger who took over from her.Or show the logo of this meme in your post, or (like I do) in the sidebar.

I hope to see you all!

Wil, ABCW Team

ABC 12S