[RFC] stop distributing worthless CAPTCHAS in 3.1

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Re: [RFC] stop distributing worthless CAPTCHAS in 3.1

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If bots can't push buttons then maybe that would work but they can "submit" so maybe they can sort CAPTCHA with buttons too. I don't know about that one...
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Re: [RFC] stop distributing worthless CAPTCHAS in 3.1

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DavidIQ wrote:... Since we love giving people choices perhaps the admin can be presented with the option to use a different CAPTCHA at that point and we just reuse the entire CAPTCHA ACP area for that. Right now we do nothing of the sort. We simply set the default broken image CAPTCHA and continue on our merry way so a change there is really needed. ...
I guess this would be a great first step, fore admins to choose at installation and even on updates if broken captcha is used and might be removed on updates too.
emosbat wrote:this is just an idea. an image captacha should use logic questions within image. a bot can not easily read an scrambled question and then find its answer. this can be very difficult for a bot.
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I like this idea, even if Kamahl19 is right and bots will be adapped. You can force bots to use a lot cpu-time for OCR, colour & forms recognition.

At least if you stop distributing worthless CAPTCHAS, you might want to add some more captchas to the core, for a better choice. To achieve this you might want to start a second Best Captcha Plugin Competition with some kine of rewards - a easy reward would be the inclusion into core phpBB or even material rewards (f.e. just ask for donations @ phpbb.com-news for this topic - since most admins have to deal with bots/spammers/...)

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Re: [RFC] stop distributing worthless CAPTCHAS in 3.1

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Master_Cylinder wrote:Couldn't the Sortable CAPTCHA that was mentioned earlier be adapted to use AJAX instead of javascript? I know there is talk of drag and drop re-ordering of forums, custom profile fields and other "sortable" fields so maybe that would work with CAPTCHA too. I don't think that spambots can drag things with a mouse. I can make a "Sortable AJAX CAPTCHA" RFC, if we need to.

Or maybe even just left/right buttons to move the selections if drag and drop can't be done?
I think that would be great idea.

Alternative could be, as mentioned earlier, if Javascript is not enabled to load a fall-back CAPTCHA that doesn't require javascript.

I'm just a huge fan of Sortables CAPTCHA because I haven't had even a single spam request since I installed it. Very impressive seeing that I would get 5-6 spam members registering prior to this.

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Re: [RFC] stop distributing worthless CAPTCHAS in 3.1

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A fall-back CAPTCHA would need to be as good as the JS based CAPTCHA that it's replacing. If it isn't, bots would simply try to register with JS disabled, wouldn't they?
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Ger wrote:A fall-back CAPTCHA would need to be as good as the JS based CAPTCHA that it's replacing. If it isn't, bots would simply try to register with JS disabled, wouldn't they?
My thoughts exactly.

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Ger wrote:A fall-back CAPTCHA would need to be as good as the JS based CAPTCHA that it's replacing. If it isn't, bots would simply try to register with JS disabled, wouldn't they?
Yeah that's a very good point.

Is there a way to have the form require particular check boxes be marked ? So when registering you would have like 5 check boxes for example and two of them have next to it "Check me if not a spam bot!" ... then require these two of five boxes be checked to submit form. Of course if a third is checked, or any box besides the particular two asking to be checked, the form would have to fail. I think this can be done with html only. Just thinking out-loud here!

Of course not sure if this would even prevent spam bots... I'm unsure how they function. In other words I don't know if they can detect this.

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BTRFISHING wrote:Is there a way to have the form require particular check boxes be marked ? So when registering you would have like 5 check boxes for example and two of them have next to it "Check me if not a spam bot!" ... then require these two of five boxes be checked to submit form. Of course if a third is checked, or any box besides the particular two asking to be checked, the form would have to fail. I think this can be done with html only. Just thinking out-loud here!
You can do that sort of thing with required Custom Profile Fields. Of course, that would likely annoy users trying to register.

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Re: [RFC] stop distributing worthless CAPTCHAS in 3.1

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Pony99CA wrote:You can do that sort of thing with required Custom Profile Fields. Of course, that would likely annoy users trying to register.
It would be an excellent Captchas then. ;)

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Mess wrote:
Pony99CA wrote:You can do that sort of thing with required Custom Profile Fields. Of course, that would likely annoy users trying to register.
It would be an excellent Captchas then. ;)
That would be a typical captcha then... ;)
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