Your anti-spam measurements are far too extreme here

[medicdude]

The correct title for your topic is: "Your Captcha is too hard to read here".

The correct recommendation is to implement a captcha alternative such as PlayThru hxxp:areyouahuman.com [nonactive]

Have nice day.

[emanuele]

The correct recommendation is to implement a captcha alternative such as PlayThru areyouahuman.com

1) if the spambots learn how to play with canvas, those games are easier to solve than a captcha (I can do as many errors I want and I can continue without any sort of halt),
2) have you tried the audio? English is not my first language, but for several years English has been my day-to-day working language and still I can't understand *anything*, absolutely anything (okay, I got a 4 now, but it was just luck).

Of course captcha are not very effective ( ), but the most important thing is usually to have something "different", whatever it is should be something that is not spread enough to be worth the time to understand how to bypass it.

[karalahana]

The correct title for your topic is: "Your  is too hard to read here".

I think this Captcha must be standart all smf forums

[enypsrozar]

It's annoying to make it through your first ten posts here, I agree, but I don't think that it can be changed.  A few spammers still make it through the system here as it is without making life easier for them, so I have to say that I back the Staff at SMF leaving the limit unchanged.

Blame the spammers, for it is their actions that have forced this to be implemented in the first place.

No way, limit is 10 before catchpa is removed? Crap, I thought it was 100. Relief!! And I didn't know you got spammers here. Yes I'm new! Still looking at stickies and tutorials to get a feel of place, there's a lot of info to go through.

[Irisado]

No way, limit is 10 before catchpa is removed? Crap, I thought it was 100. Relief!! And I didn't know you got spammers here. Yes I'm new! Still looking at stickies and tutorials to get a feel of place, there's a lot of info to go through.

There are plenty of spammers which still make it through the net, so just think how many more would break through without the measures which currently exist.

Anyway, as you're discovering, it doesn't look as though it will take you too long to reach the magic ten, and it's a refreshing change to see somebody reading the stickies too .

[enypsrozar]

Anyway, as you're discovering, it doesn't look as though it will take you too long to reach the magic ten, and it's a refreshing change to see somebody reading the stickies too .

True. In another SMF forum you need 100 posts before the catchpa is removed . And they have just upgraded to a 2.0.2, so they are really behind already.

There are plenty of spammers which still make it through the net, so just think how many more would break through without the measures which currently exist.

They manage to get through even with the 100 post minimum and [edit.] and they still manage to get through. Frustrating to deal with. I haven't seen a single spam attack on this forum yet. (lol, it's my first night on) Lol, yeah, I'm still reading the stickies -- there's heaps, lol.

[Kindred]

oh, there are still a fair number of spammers that get through. Luckily, we have a team who tries to keep on top of it - and we have a community who report the spam when they notice it.

Unfortunately, the best ways to prevent spam are not necesarriyl available to this community - primary method: questions instead of CAPTCHA. Unfortunately (in 2.0) questions do not support the multilingual nature of our site. secondary methods: The best of these use third party services - which is something we try to avoid on this site.