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THIS MODIFICATION SHOULD NOT BE USED WITH VBULLETIN 3.7+ AS IT IS A DEFAULT FEATURE.
Keywords: reCAPTCHA, CAPTCHA, spam, register Description: This modification will replaced the default vBulletin registration CAPTCHA with the newer, more advanced reCAPTCHA. What is CAPTCHA/reCAPTCHA?: A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them ? colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs. About 60 million CAPTCHAs are solved by humans around the world every day. In each case, roughly ten seconds of human time are being spent. Individually, that's not a lot of time, but in aggregate these little puzzles consume more than 150,000 hours of work each day. What if we could make positive use of this human effort? reCAPTCHA does exactly that by channeling the effort spent solving CAPTCHAs online into "reading" books. To archive human knowledge and to make information more accessible to the world, multiple projects are currently digitizing physical books that were written before the computer age. The book pages are being photographically scanned, and then, to make them searchable, transformed into text using "Optical Character Recognition" (OCR). The transformation into text is useful because scanning a book produces images, which are difficult to store on small devices, expensive to download, and cannot be searched. The problem is that OCR is not perfect. reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because most OCR programs alert you when a word cannot be read correctly. But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct. Currently, we are helping to digitize books from the Internet Archive. [hr]-[/hr] Installation:
NOTE: YOU MAY ALSO REPLACE THE CAPTCHA DISPLAYED TO GUESTS WHEN USING THE "CONTACT US" FORM BY FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS HERE. [hr]-[/hr] Tips, tricks and modifications:
[hr]-[/hr] Comments: As with all my hacks, this modification is provided free of charge. However, if you find this product useful and have money burning a hole in your pocket, feel free to make a small donation, I won't mind.. really. Version History:
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* Please note that this modification was developed on a forum with a userbase of 1 (myself). I've tested it for basic functionality but I cannot guarantee functionality or behavior on your forum. So, please -- make backups before installing this product! Show Your Support
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In fact i'm running 3.6.4...
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We have vB 3.7.2 and reCaptcha doesn't work whatsoever, none of the image verification methods either... pants!
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If you're having a problem with a stock feature please go to vbulletin.com or post in the general vBulletin dicsussion forum. |
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Well there is a captcha in the vbulletin by default, but this captcha is already cracked by so many spammers.
Everyday so many bots register at our boards by entering the correct vbulletin captcha.... So does anyone have an idea how to integrate http://recaptcha.net/ into an vbulletin 3.7 ? |
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Its already in 3.7.
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this is a great addon "Installed" thnx for upping it!
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Does this work on 3.6.8? I've installed it on a few sites, one is 3.6.8 and I don't get the reCAPTCHA box displayed. All of the others it works fine. I even tried the register template edit and it still isn't displayed. Any ideas?
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I installed it late at night and started to get tired. I just couldn't handle another annoying day of bots.
I went with Method B; and I am sure this error is user error. I C&P like you suggested and followed the directions. I am getting this error message. : Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in .... /register.php on line 851 I will look what line 851 is; but the other co admin and I are super busy this week. So, if you know how to fix the error off the top of your head it would be GREATLY appreciated. thanks. |
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Any ideas on this one?
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#131
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are you using it on the same server as the other sites if not do you have the required specs for it eg do you have GIDLib (<<<< not sure if i spelt that right) and everything else if so check on a differant template and make sure you do exactly as told as one mistake even a extra letter could stop the system from working!
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