Spam captcha
Dear Tender Team,
Since I'm not familiar with the English language, the captcha method is kind'a hard on me, cause I have no idea on what to write in the box...
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Can't you change it to a numeric formula... Mathematic is the only world-known language, and it's always the same, whenever you are.
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1 Posted by rick on 23 Apr, 2009 07:32 PM
The problem with mathematic formulas is that they're still very easy to parse for spammers. Logic ones require you to hit a site repeatedly and pick up all the answers. But, you bring up a good point... we'll look at changing or removing the captcha in favor of other methods.
2 Posted by balexandre on 11 May, 2009 11:46 AM
http://recaptcha.net/
isn't this better? at least for me ... it is cause all I need is to copy the same letter, no matter if I do understand the word or not.
3 Posted by rick on 13 May, 2009 12:05 AM
We removed the jack and jill one. The others are based on numbers and dates.
4 Posted by balexandre on 13 May, 2009 06:55 AM
In my humble opinion is still not good, specially if we are using this in other countries (like Denmark), I know that "most" of the persons know English (not in Spain or France for example, were if you don't speak their language, .... ohh well).
I do believe that you want to do the best as possible to fight spam, but you must realize that you also need to reach to every and single person and do not private the ones with difficulties on using this fantastic web app... of course, we can always use the email you might say, but we are talking the web app right? :-)
at least, I encourage you to make a refresh link in order to refresh only the SPAM question, so we can loop until we find a question that we do understand and know the answer for, because, I don't know about all, but "Thursday" (or even "Tuesday") is hard to write for a not so common non-English person.