Not A Bug - General Question - Bugs

B BambooRadley Grand Member (1 year) Joined: Mar 18, 2013 Posts: 34	B BambooRadley Posted posted on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 6:10 PM Greetings - thanks for your stellar effort here. I have a general question : is captcha a necessity? Always found it exceedingly annoying. Best,BR
L leevigraham Grand Engineer Newcastle, Australia Joined: Aug 24, 2018 Posts: 374	L leevigraham Posted posted on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 6:12 PM in reply to BambooRadley Short answer is yes… Captchas are only shown: on login on registration when posting (new, edit and replies) if you have less than 10 posts It's a measure to try and reduce spam during the relaunch and before we add moderation tools. [ Edited by leevigraham on 2022-03-16 20:07:31 ]
B BambooRadley Grand Member (1 year) Joined: Mar 18, 2013 Posts: 34	B BambooRadley Posted posted on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 6:14 PM in reply to leevigraham All good... thanks for the quick reply. BR
3 3vab Tiki Centralite Joined: Jan 29, 2020 Posts: 39	3 3vab Posted posted on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 7:56 PM in reply to leevigraham -- [ Edited by 3vab on 2022-09-25 11:25:14 ]
H hanford_lemoore Tiki Socialite Tiki Central Joined: Mar 23, 2002 Posts: 1899	H hanford_lemoore Posted posted on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 8:34 PM in reply to 3vab I don't have 10 posts, so expected. It's also popping up for post edits and replies. Won't be a huge problem if/when I get enough posts, but that's there. The problem is Captchas don't actually stop spam anymore if they're used JUST for a log in. Someone can solve it once then have a bot post the rest. So we're requiring them for every action on accounts with less than ten posts. it's annoying, but temporary, and sadly required. Over the 20 years of Tiki Central, we've had THOUSANDS of fake spam accounts registered. Possibly 10s of thousands. [ Edited by hanford_lemoore on 2022-03-16 20:35:09 ]

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BambooRadley Posted posted on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 6:10 PM

Greetings - thanks for your stellar effort here. I have a general question : is captcha a necessity? Always found it exceedingly annoying. Best,BR

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leevigraham Posted posted on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 6:12 PM in reply to BambooRadley

Short answer is yes…

Captchas are only shown:

on login
on registration
when posting (new, edit and replies) if you have less than 10 posts

It's a measure to try and reduce spam during the relaunch and before we add moderation tools.

[ Edited by leevigraham on 2022-03-16 20:07:31 ]

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BambooRadley Posted posted on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 6:14 PM in reply to leevigraham

All good... thanks for the quick reply. BR

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3vab Posted posted on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 7:56 PM in reply to leevigraham

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[ Edited by 3vab on 2022-09-25 11:25:14 ]

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hanford_lemoore Posted posted on Wed, Mar 16, 2022 8:34 PM in reply to 3vab

I don't have 10 posts, so expected. It's also popping up for post edits and replies. Won't be a huge problem if/when I get enough posts, but that's there.

The problem is Captchas don't actually stop spam anymore if they're used JUST for a log in. Someone can solve it once then have a bot post the rest. So we're requiring them for every action on accounts with less than ten posts.

it's annoying, but temporary, and sadly required. Over the 20 years of Tiki Central, we've had THOUSANDS of fake spam accounts registered. Possibly 10s of thousands.

[ Edited by hanford_lemoore on 2022-03-16 20:35:09 ]