<![CDATA[Captchas to avoid spambots?]]>There’s a surge of spambots lately on the forum posting about “universities”. Maybe some kind of captcha could keep them out?

Thanks!!

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/topic/2330/captchas-to-avoid-spambotsRSS for NodeTue, 21 Jul 2026 08:18:42 GMTSun, 18 Aug 2024 08:47:51 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Captchas to avoid spambots? on Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:33:34 GMT]]>@jonas StopForumSpam is very good but not sure it around anymore but here is website https://www.stopforumspam.com/

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/8454https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/8454Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:33:34 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Captchas to avoid spambots? on Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:24:18 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/5276https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/5276Thu, 12 Sep 2024 14:24:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Captchas to avoid spambots? on Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:23:32 GMT]]>@jonas Maybe you could try enbling Honeypot (instead of ReCaptcha, I guess) for registrations, and Akismet for individual posts?

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nodebb-plugin-spam-be-gone

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/4746https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/4746Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:23:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Captchas to avoid spambots? on Mon, 19 Aug 2024 21:16:12 GMT]]>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:
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Alternatives are Akismet, Project Honeypot, StopForumSpam and hCaptcha.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/4745https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/4745Mon, 19 Aug 2024 21:16:12 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Captchas to avoid spambots? on Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:45:17 GMT]]>@jonas Maybe changing the captcha provider/type? I can look into alternatives if you want.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/4743https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/4743Mon, 19 Aug 2024 07:45:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Captchas to avoid spambots? on Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:24:02 GMT]]>@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.

]]>https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/4737https://forum.strawberrymusicplayer.org/post/4737Sun, 18 Aug 2024 19:24:02 GMT