If members are asked to enter a captcha upon registration, the need for them to enter several of them within an hour while posting on forums would not be necessary. My forum is a "Daytime and Primetime" television discussion board- the message board is the primary function. My members gather together for the time-slot of the show and discuss it while it airs, hence, many "new" topics started during the hour. The need for them to suddenly enter a Captcha every time they have something new to say is hurting the flow and traffic of my board. We've been an active board, with over 800 members, for quite some time and since you brought this feature, we're lucky to see more than half a dozen people posting at once.
This feature should either be optional or the owners/admins should be given the option of turning it off. As I said earlier, if the captcha is necessary upon registration, the SPAM problem is just as easily eradicated.
I hope that you will take this idea into consideration because if other owners have the same type board that I am on, moving it to a new domain may also be in their minds.
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Molly,
I'd like to clarify a bit on why the captcha was put in place there. What we've found is that spammers will take the time to complete the single captcha during member registration, then will use a bot in their place to spam the forums app. Unfortunately, the captcha during registration is not enough to prevent spam.
The forums captcha is shown only if a member has posted a large number of times within an hour. We're trying to balance preventing spam and the affect of the captcha on very active posters and forum communities. Thanks for your feedback, and I'll definitely pass this along for consideration.
Would you mind letting me know your site address so that I can include it as well? -
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Would it be helpful if site owners/admins can provide you with the names and emails of the people who SPAM their boards so IP bans can be put in place? We had a Spammer a couple weeks ago, who keeps re-applying for membership wth the same user name and email addy.
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Some of my members have said they are seeing the Captcha and because of the obscurity of some of the words, they are being put off in leaving posts in my Forum. The Forum is open to private members only, as is the whole website, and I have not had any spammers at all, over 2 years now.
I would like to know just how many "a large number" of post is so I can pass this on to my members. -
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I'd like to post an update about this- I know it's been a while. However, over this past week, we've been dealing with 2 or more "SPAM bots" on our site. Usually, if you can believe it, on our Prayer Request discussions board. When we delete the comments, we are given the option of "deleting all spam"- which basically tells me that Webs is aware that spam is again slipping through the cracks-- AKA, the CAPTCHA that is still a nuisance to my posters.
My question is, what's next? Also, If the captcha is no longer effective and spam is getting through anyway, can we have the option of removing the feature?
This topic has been "under consideration" for 5 months now. I think switching its status to "flat-out ignored" is more appropriate. -
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I would like to be able to disable the Captcha for comments on my blog. It can be hard to read, and most people comment on Facebook under my blog post instead of on the post, and I hear it's because of Captcha.
I think spam should be managed by each blog or forum owner. In Blogger I used to be able to click a box saying "enable Captcha" or "disable Captcha". I would love for Webs to offer the same option. Thank you! www.julianneharvey.com-
I would like this on my blog also. Either give the site owner the option to disable the CAPTCHA, or make it easier to read. The problem is if someone types a comment and then gets the code wrong, it erases the comment and they have to start all over. Most say "forget it" and then email me to complain (or never come back). I've tried it myself and sometimes I have to refresh the code 10 times before I can find one that I can figure out. The audio CAPTCHA is even worse. Thanks!
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I don't see how captcha will stop a spammer. My members have to do the captcha just to send each other private messages. Between members, if their settings are set to friends only, and they don't except a friend request from a bot, then how are they going to get spam that way? And it gets better. When I share something from my site to Facebook, nobody can share it on Facebook without doing a captcha. This is insane! Nobody else on the whole internet does that. The 'shares' on Facebook equal business for my site, and captcha is taking money out of my pocket. This needs to be fixed. It supposed to be my website, so let me deal with the spam. Thanks!
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I would have thought that after a year something would have been done about this. The Captcha is annoying to say the least and I agree with Kelly Kellam, give site owners the option to use it or not.
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Please allow forum/site administrators to turn on/off all captcha features within the forums. All half-dozen of us at retroreviewrevolution are real annoyed.
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I am making a website for my artclub, and my classmates cannot join because the school is blocking the captcha, and they can't sign up here at the school, please let me disable it www.aartclub.webs.com
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