Recaptcha

[popowich]

Hello,

Have you had a drop off in spam registrations since recaptcha became available to all in 3.7.4?

89732

It's worked great for me on several forums! :D

-Raymond

[Ziki]

No.

[cheat-master30]

No, but I don't use recaptcha. Question and answer verification on the other hand pretty much completely killed spam.

[Roms]

No bots; wish we could get rid of the human spammers... I still get about 5-15 a week.

[Ryan Ashbrook]

We used to use the vBulletin Captcha but when that got thwarted we moved to ReCaptcha, because I haven't got much time to create several questions for the Q&A.

Before the Captcha was broke, we got absolutely 0 spam bots, but once we were forced to switch we get one every other week or so.

So in short, No, it hasn't reduced spam on my forums.

[iogames]

So spammers are senseless trashing machines with no earnings at all? Ummh... I will do a documentary... 'A Spammer Life' :D

[kevcj]

My sons and my wifes forum were getting flooded by spammers. My sons forum runs SMF, my wifes forum uses VB.

After I installed recapthca on both forums, the spam stopped.

Both forums were getting around 5 spammers a day signing up. 2 weeks later, not a single spammer has gotten through. But recapthca only works on bots. But then again, its impossible to keep human spammers out.

[mnymaker]

It has stopped all the automatic registration bots. But there is nothing you can do about the humans with nothing better to do. But the SPAM is wayyyyyyyyy down, from 50 a week to like 1. :D