Captcha on Registration

[Sarkduck]

The captcha at registration is ridiculous. Had to refresh about 100 times just to vaguely even guess at one.

 

[Rickster123]

Welcome!!

 

[PlumbBobBob]

if it stops even one spammer it is a good thing. welcome along

 

[Dotty]

If you had to deal with the amount of spammers and trolls we do on a daily basis to keep the UKPF in its acclaimed position as the best plumbing forum on t'interweb bar none you wouldn't complain.

Wlecome to the forum.

 

[zzzjim]

Maybe we need to discus if captcha actually wants real words or nWeirdnuns

 

[Dotty]

Maybe we need to discus if captcha actually wants real words or nWeirdnuns

Not really up for discussion this. It's Dan's decision as the forum owner.

 

[Barry98]

The captcha at registration is ridiculous. Had to refresh about 100 times just to vaguely even guess at one.

Should of gone to spec savers

welcome to the forums

 

[Ray Stafford]

Welcome sarduck.

On the other issue, I guess it's a matter of finding the right balance between keeping the spammers and suchlike out, whilst not scaring off the proper potential members.

Glad it's not me that has that thankless task.

 

[Howsie]

I feel sorry for the partially sighted.

 

[Dotty]

I feel sorry for the partially sighted.

Like us you mean?

 

[Sarkduck]

Thanks for the welcome.

I appreciate the difficulty in preventing spammers gaining access to the forums (and incidentally, there are a number of scripts that spambots can use to still bypass these kinds of captchas) but it's undoubtedly going to keeping legitimate members away as well.

There are a number of alternatives to captcha that are even more harder for automated spammers to crack whilst simple for real humans.

Here are a few examples:-

This contact form requests a sum.
This demo uses an interactive game.
This blog uses a puzzle related to their target audience.
This enquiry form requires any two random digits.
This [DLMURL="http://confidenttechnologies.com/Confident_CAPTCHA_Demo"]demo[/DLMURL] uses picture recognition.
Many other varieties and ways to handle this. And some in-depth conversation on this.

Perhaps you could use a basic plumbing diagram/question instead - heh.

Anyway, food for thought...