Stop these 'Captcha' things please!

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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  • Former Member
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    Tuesday 14th - another round of chinese spam has appeared.

    Presumably the point of the spam is to enable their material to be found by search engines - i.e. the forum is just an unwitting host to content that people will find from google or wherever? Is the forum material indexed on chinese search engines - can this be stopped by appropriate antirobot files being put in place that will discourage indexing from there?

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  • Former Member
    Former Member

    Tuesday 14th - another round of chinese spam has appeared.

    Presumably the point of the spam is to enable their material to be found by search engines - i.e. the forum is just an unwitting host to content that people will find from google or wherever? Is the forum material indexed on chinese search engines - can this be stopped by appropriate antirobot files being put in place that will discourage indexing from there?

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