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On 29/03/13 18:29, Benjamin Lees wrote:
Humans regularly get CAPTCHAs wrong, and they often do
so multiple
times (if you have any elderly relatives, feel free to see how
many tries it takes them to solve a reCAPTCHA one). Blocking them
from even viewing your site for a day seems a little extreme.
+1 - there is one well-known blog site that uses capture, and I've
tried as many as 10 times on a single submission, only to give up
because I simply couldn't get the captcha right. Now I don't even try
to comment there.
Is there an actual problem you're trying to solve
here? Is there
any indication that spam bots are affecting your site's
performance? If not, worrying about this is probably a waste of
your time.
We did have something of a problem on the
userbase.kde.org wiki -
mostly spam inserted on new user pages, but finally one destructive
spam edit. We installed questy captcha for registration. It stops
machine/bot registrations but not human ones. It doesn't stop humans
adding spam, but believe me, the problem is so light compared with
what it was.
Anne
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