Comments on: A change when adding comments – please read

By: muck

muck — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:52:36 +0000

Gaufrid@16
The spambots are too *deleted by me* clever
But please stick with the present Captcha unless things get worse

By: Derek Lazenby

Derek Lazenby — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:54:56 +0000

Gaufrid, have a look at the Captcha on my Messages page on my web site. It is wiggly characters but not unreadable. My message board is provided from smartgb.com, maybe if you mail them they would tell you where they got from, or if it is their own, whether they make it seperately available.

However, just looking at the HTML/Javascript for that page, I could be wrong, but it looks like all the code is present on that page. Might be worth a look. I can sort of do HTML/Javascipt coding, but I prefer to leave it to others as it’s not my area of programming expertise.

By: Gaufrid

Gaufrid — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Hi Anax @13
I would agree with you which is why I am actively looking into a change of hosting company.

Hi muck @14
The solution box will only acceprt a maximum of two characters so it has to be numeric, as you have determined. Part of the Captcha is alphabetic in an attempt to fool the spambots. From the stats for the past couple of days this is not entirely successful. However I am loath to change to a traditional, often unreadable, Captcha nor the alternative of a childish drag-and-drop game.

By: muck

muck — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:34:21 +0000

It appears that the answer has to be numeric

By: muck

muck — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:32:42 +0000

If the catchpa ia part alphabetic and part numeral, eg two + 8, can the answer be either alphabetic ie ten or numeric ie 10 ?

By: anax

anax — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:30:38 +0000

If the Captcha device reduces spam, it should prove much more effective than losing so many posts from the first page. After all, the page content is only text, so the difference between displaying 10 posts and 50 should be unnoticeable.

On one or two occasions over past couple of days the site has been very slow to load or has failed to establish database connection (on other occasions it’s been very quick). With Captcha and reduced page content in place, it looks like the webhost is still providing a, ahem, ‘less than perfect’ service.

By: Ally

Ally — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:27:34 +0000

The spammers really ruin everything don’t they! I am glad you went for the sum kind of CAPTCHA, I can just about cope with those. My eyes aren’t what they used to be so I had to download some CAPTCHA bypass software called RUMOLA to read the regular kind! They just look like a rather lumpy motion blur or something half the time and make me feel ancient. Thankfully arithmetic doesn’t have this effect.
Ally

By: cholecyst

cholecyst — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:17:08 +0000

…me too.

By: nametab

nametab — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:37:54 +0000

simply testing

By: bagbird

bagbird — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:39:44 +0000

A well thought out and sensible solution.