Captcha Disgust posted by Bob Cochran @ Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:19:33 +0000
Ugh, these captchas are very hard to use. They are hard to see clearly! It makes it much, much harder for me to post from my Droid phone! What I dislike the most is that after taking the time to craft...
View ArticleCaptcha Disgust posted by Travis Swicegood @ Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:30:54 +0000
While it might not be much help to those on mobile devices, there is a “refresh” button on reCaptcha. If a word is too hard to make out, just refresh and you’re on your way.I kind of like reCaptcha...
View ArticleCaptcha Disgust posted by Diego Zamboni @ Thu, 18 Nov 2010 06:02:47 +0000
I profoundly dislike the captchas. Since I have to be signed into my pragprog account to post, what is the point of having the captchas? Am I not supposed to be an authenticated user already? Was there...
View ArticleCaptcha Disgust posted by Diego Zamboni @ Thu, 18 Nov 2010 13:58:05 +0000
Travis – I didn’t know this about reCaptcha, I guess I had never bothered to click on the little question mark button. Now I dislike it a little less :)
View ArticleCaptcha Disgust posted by Susannah Davidson Pfalzer @ Thu, 18 Nov 2010...
Good news, folks. We’ve fixed the captcha functionality to keep your post in case of captcha failure. Thank you for the feedback!
View ArticleCaptcha Disgust posted by Bob Cochran @ Fri, 19 Nov 2010 04:50:01 +0000
Diego certainly makes an excellent point that we are already authenticated via email address and password authentication, so why would authenticated users be required to enter captchas? The captchas I...
View ArticleCaptcha Disgust posted by Diego Zamboni @ Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:15:35 +0000
Bob: I agree, the captcha should be at the account-creation stage (if it’s not there already), and not at the individual posting level. I don’t think this will stop me (or anyone who is interested...
View ArticleCaptcha Disgust posted by Dave Thomas @ Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:25:45 +0000
Last week we had spammers create an account, then spam 780 messages into the forums.People complained about that.So I added capchtas at the point of message creation. I used Google recaptcha, because...
View ArticleCaptcha Disgust posted by Bob Cochran @ Fri, 19 Nov 2010 22:36:51 +0000
Dave, I am sympathetic to the problem you are facing. Have you analyzed the spam that you got—did you study it carefully? Was it all from just one account? Or were there several? How fast did the spam...
View ArticleCaptcha Disgust posted by Diego Zamboni @ Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:36:17 +0000
Dave, I really sympathize with you regarding the spam problem. Another alternative would be Akismet (http://akismet.com/ ), a spam filter that works very nicely, since it receives spam from all over...
View ArticleCaptcha Disgust posted by Bob Cochran @ Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:10:18 +0000
I have not looked at Akismet. Interesting idea, that! Thanks for bringing it up, Diego.Another idea. Why not offer me a public key certificate that would let me authenticate each post I make on the...
View ArticleCaptcha Disgust posted by Dave Thomas @ Sun, 21 Nov 2010 18:40:07 +0000
Folks, I appreciate the suggestions.I did analyze the spam: we get hit (or used to get hit) about once a week. Sometimes it was from a single account, sometimes from multiple accounts. Sometimes the...
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