i am using recaptcha and lots of anti spam plugins are the spammers human or bots or both?should i user 2 Re-captchas not just 1?
http://www.google.com/recaptcha
any tips please
thanks any tips plz
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its not fair lol so mr beckett any tips and suggestions from a pro like you please : )
I am using the custom text captcha with very specific questions. Depending on the purpose of your site it might work quite well. Our's is a site only for Uganda, thus outside spammers have a difficult time beating those questions.
It seems however that there is a significant number of spammers that are actually not bots but humans and who spend time googling those questions, thus I still get 2-3 spam accounts per day (with recaptcha is was more like 10-20 per day). I should increase and change the number of questions though... it might be the same few spammers every day again ;)
thanks for the info, i might add 2 captchas make it double harder lol what captcha plugin are you using to add your own questions i want it lol !!! : )
http://community.elgg.org/plugins/793357/1.0.2/text-captcha-18
(it takes any question, not just math examples like given in the description)
nice thank you, i will see what happens lol hopefully i can have 2 captchas running or if not i may just use this one as googles captcha is rubbish
Honeypot and Spam Login Filter are very good at stopping bots. Use those plugin and also the "passphrase" captcha plugin. You need to be very very careful with those bots.
Rodolfo Hernandez
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passphrase plugin link please : ) using the others mentioned and more