Comments on: Sick of reCAPTCHA

By: david

david — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 06:56:02 +0000

you are constantly breaqking the law….by requiriue b this…peope who afre visually ipmaired can not do this…u will be sued

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:25:51 +0000

Fucking shittiest program ever…

By: toasty aroma

toasty aroma — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:59:12 +0000

spam bots recently got past recaptcha on one of my blogs (http://blog.toastyaroma.com) and I’m curious how they even got one of the words correct. I’m going to have to implement something to complement it.. bad behavior looks interesting…

By: BG

BG — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:30:26 +0000

Asirra is an interesting idea, although since they tell me that I am a bot too, it’s clearly not ready for real world use. CAPTCHA sucks, there’s no two ways about it.

I just ignore any form submissions that are made in a session under 3 seconds. Don’t think a person could comment that fast, so it works for me and seems to eliminate a lot of spam. There is also bad behaviour, which looks interesting. http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/.

By: michele

michele — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:21:22 +0000

I do find readability to be an issue, but don’t know of other options out there that is so effective in stopping that pesky spam.

By: Blaenk Denum

Blaenk Denum — Fri, 16 May 2008 23:25:09 +0000

Hello. I’m working on the next official reCAPTCHA WordPress Plugin. You can see the things that have been implemented so far at the wiki page here [ http://code.google.com/p/recaptcha/wiki/TodoWordPress ]. Perhaps the benefits will outweigh the ‘flaws’. I don’t have any authority over the core CAPTCHA system, just the plugin and its features etc. So even if you told me to make the CAPTCHAs easier to read (Which for me at least, 95 percent of the time are), I wouldn’t be able to help you there. However what you could do is edit the plugin file or your comments.php file in your theme’s folder and right above the reCAPTCHA spot, in discrete font mention in just one line that if it’s too difficult to solve to click refresh, and if even after a while (Which again I highly doubt) it is difficult to read, then just type their best guess.

Let me know your thoughts on the next release, I’ve been working hurriedly on it. Among many things, it will also support reCAPTCHAs mailhide API which will elegantly and in a clever way hide emails from spambots. Currently I am working on trying to make it work in conjunction with Akismet so that if a comment does get through reCAPTCHA it is still screened by Akismet to further test the comment. At the moment, if one enables Akismet along with reCAPTCHA, any spam comments that the reCAPTCHA comment will block will still be reported by Akismet as spam. I believe it has to do with priority levels.

By: Jörn Zaefferer

Jörn Zaefferer — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:34:12 +0000

I’m using Akismet and some Track Validation Plugin on my blog. Can’t remember when Akisment blocked something that wasn’t spam. Everything not marked by Akismet is moderated, unless the author posted before and got published. That worked quite fine so far.

Why the heck doesn’t reCAPTCHA at least mention that you have to get only one word right?

By: Felipe Lima

Felipe Lima — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:13:05 +0000

Test post for determining if I’m able to correctly answer to this reCAPTCHA (I did’nt know it existed before reading this post). It doesn’t seem very easy though
BTW: Nice blog. I like reading it occasionally

By: Eric Burke

Eric Burke — Sun, 04 May 2008 05:05:11 +0000

I used Akismet before reCAPTCHA. Akismet required far too much effort on my part to constantly scan for valid messages incorrectly marked as spam.

By: Alex Miller

Alex Miller — Sun, 04 May 2008 02:49:04 +0000

Until I read this post, I didn’t realize how reCAPTCHA worked. And I’ve been around the blogging block once or twice. I don’t use captcha at all on my blog, just akismet and my spam is quite manageable. Why do you even need it?