Captchas to avoid spambots?
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There’s a surge of spambots lately on the forum posting about “universities”. Maybe some kind of captcha could keep them out?
Thanks!!
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@tagomago
There already is captcha on registration. It's not just lately, it's actually been much worse before, but I often delete it seconds after they post so often you won't notice them.
I'm not sure what more can be done to stop it. -
@jonas Maybe changing the captcha provider/type? I can look into alternatives if you want.
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I'm not sure if they are actually spambots bypassing the captcha, or humans manually registering.
I'm using Google reCAPTCHA.
First you have to click "I'm not a robot", then you have to solve this:
Alternatives are Akismet, Project Honeypot, StopForumSpam and hCaptcha.
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@jonas Maybe you could try enbling Honeypot (instead of ReCaptcha, I guess) for registrations, and Akismet for individual posts?
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@tagomago
I didn't get Honeypot to work (their website is very slow and I'm receiving 504 Gateway Time-out errors), so I've switched to using hCaptcha instead of Google reCAPTCHA, let's wait and see if that makes any difference. -
@jonas StopForumSpam is very good but not sure it around anymore but here is website https://www.stopforumspam.com/
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