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Pagal,
You are really into bbPress, and thats great
People here, including myself, like helping you and others
The way I look at it is this: every time someone asks a question and people take the time to answer, it means more people who have that question will be able to find the answer without having to ask.
The difference is..
You don’t check first:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-disable-wp-super-chache-plugin-for-bbpress#post-72398
You start the same topic over and over:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/questions-about-bbpm-plugin
We ask you for information and you say “I don’t think this information is required”.
You say something doesn’t work, and then when we ask how it doesn’t work you refuse to tell us.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/block-users-by-their-names#post-70805
You get angry if you don’t get your own way:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/extra-dropdown-field-in-registration-page#post-70307
I don’t know why people forcing me to search bbPress solutions from GOOGLE and trying to bug me off from this Support
Because it saves us from having to type the same answers over and over.
None of us are paid here, we’re all just trying to help. The more time we spend typing the same answers to the same question because someone can’t use google, the less time we have for new questions.
Your last question, was very very easy to find the answer for.
It had it’s own tag (which YOU typed in), which lead you right to the answer.
The answer was the top search result in google.
The answer was linked to 5 times on searching on this forum.
Its just a request to open my topic again.
Why bro?
I’m guessing it was closed because the question was answered
You asked a question, you got an answer that worked
That’s awesome!
Pagal,
I know you dislike me always saying it, but GOOGLE, then ask.
I did and top search results was…
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bug-found-bbpress-with-wp-super-cache
But even better than that, if you click on “wp-super-cache” tag that YOU typed in, guess what: It lists 3 topics, yours and 2 others that tell you how to fix this problem:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bug-found-bbpress-with-wp-super-cache
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-problem
Honestly mate, if you don’t want to use a search engine, I can’t make you, but try looking for yourself first, please
@Kev, But I still did not understand the solution!I need alternative… do you have?
Nope, there isn’t one.
Any automated solution can and will eventually be beated by spam-bots, based on the fact that they are upgraded to mimic human behavior.
Any automated solution becomes less effective over time.
And automated solutions against human spammers make 0 difference at all.
Did you mean there is no need of captcha
Yes. Captcha’s stop spam-bots quite effectively, but also stop a large percentage of human users. Captcha’s do not stop human spammers.
Captcha’s are like wearing a clock round your neck ( http://www.blogcdn.com/www.theboombox.com/media/2008/02/flavor-flav-200-020608.jpg ). It seemed like a good idea at one time
…and allow people to send thousand of fake emails and register users
No.
There are other methods of cutting down on the spam. You just can’t stop the spam entirely. If you run a website, YOU will have to moderate in some form. It’s just the way of it.
But making your users prove they are human every time they post is simply a very bad option. It’s not your users fault there’s spam on your forum/blog/website.
What version of WordPress are you using?
What version of bbPress are you using?
please
Hi Korti,
The issue with captcha’s comes down to the fact that you’re asking users to prove they’re not spammers by a method only avalible to be answered by a percentage of your legitamate posters. It’s not their fault the software you chose (or, we’ve all chosen) can’t handle the spam.
The realism is, if you’re running 100 sites, you should have a moderation policy in place. With people/human moderators. No software system, ever in the history of the world, has stopped 100% of spam. Infact, none have even come close to catching 100% of spam.
It’s all about percentages, and putting systems in place to get the spam coming through down to a managable number. I agree that typing any 4 numbers into a box doesn’t take long or put people off, but that’s a massive over simplification.
Captcha’s don’t:
1) Make any difference to human spam
2) Work if the user is on an older browser
3) Work if the user has JavaScript turned off
4) Work is the user has Images turned off
5) Work on mobile devices (by and large)
6) Meet any accessability standards
7) look or work the same for people with sight issues. (and the audio captchas simply don’t work).
Work in RTL languages / displays9) Work in non-latin based languages as default (arabic / manderin / cantonese)
10) Work without a mouse (if using a reCaptcha).
Percentage wise, that’s a HUGE HUGE HUGE percentage of the world right there.
As a Real World example: I’m currently onsite at a client’s campus running analystics and UX/IA for their new University enrolment system. Online enrolment is down just over 20% from this time last year (not a big worry), but failed registrations is up by over 400%. Number one reason: people failing the captcha.
Captcha instantly fixed it and I still get just as many emails from customers asking questions if not more
Maybe you’re getting more emails because people who are serious can’t use your form to post.
What about those that are serious, but after multiple attempts at using your captcha simply gave up.
I do not think an extra 10th of a second for a captcha code would make people go anywhere else
Its cool that you think that, but there is so much data out there that says otherwise.
We have almost 20 years of HCI data availible, and we know for a certainty that the percentage of users who complete registration/sign-in/posting drops at an alarming rate the longer the process goes on.
Have you ever noticed how captcha’s were everywhere in 2007, but are virtually no-where now?
I am in no way a “bad” moderator a busy one yes.
I don’t doubt that mate. Approx 100 sites? I couldn’t even begin to imagine.
Take Care.
Cool, ok, well let do a wee hunt in Opera.
I’ll have a look and get back to you if i find anything
