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Stop these 'Captcha' things please!

Technophobe23

OK, I know it was me who made the big fuss about the spammers who were spoiling this forum a few weeks ago.  And appreciate that the new 'captcha' code thingamy you've introduiced after every attempt to post anythingf (regardless whether one has successfully logged in or not) must be intended to weed out the spammers.

BUT, it is EXTREMELY annoying to have to run the gauntlet of typing vague and ambiguous characters into a 'box' before knowing whether one has wasted one's ime completely or not.

Please look at other forums. There are plenty that seem to work successfully 99.9% of the time without resoprting to this ridiculous palaver.

Thank and good night.  I'll be back when you've sorted this. (I can;t be arsed going back to check for typos - I'm sure there are several, if not many - my apologies to anyone who find this irritating - I know how you feel!)

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  • I find captcha annoying, but hasn't been prohibitive for me on this site so far, i.e. I haven't had to make a second attempt due to incorrectly reading the characters to be entered. Not to say that others don't struggle with it.

    I do think an automatic setting requiring moderator approval for the first x amount of new members' posts would help. It would have the disadvantage for new genuine people who want to post about and get quick feedback on a difficult situation, but maybe this could be balanced by promoting people to use the search facility for previous discussions of the issue, coupled with a prompt turnaround in approval of messages.

    Or not permitting/requiring moderation of posts with characters other than those appearing in the basic Latin alphabet.

    I wish we could just "send the spammers to 'Coventriey'" (as they seem to call it)!

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  • I find captcha annoying, but hasn't been prohibitive for me on this site so far, i.e. I haven't had to make a second attempt due to incorrectly reading the characters to be entered. Not to say that others don't struggle with it.

    I do think an automatic setting requiring moderator approval for the first x amount of new members' posts would help. It would have the disadvantage for new genuine people who want to post about and get quick feedback on a difficult situation, but maybe this could be balanced by promoting people to use the search facility for previous discussions of the issue, coupled with a prompt turnaround in approval of messages.

    Or not permitting/requiring moderation of posts with characters other than those appearing in the basic Latin alphabet.

    I wish we could just "send the spammers to 'Coventriey'" (as they seem to call it)!

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