I understand it is useful to have a verification code to weed out any Bot posts. BUT, I get really cheesed off when the “words” are nonsense words in a funky font, so that you can hardly distinguish between similar letters, and there is no grammatical context to help. Then you end up guessing: “is that a q? or a 9? ” etc… Some of them (not this forum, yet) even use punctuation that looks like it might just be a spot.
Anybody else ticked off?
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I hate them too. Popular Woodworking does the same thing and over there you have to submit your post twice because the first time it never goes through
you better
get more traffic over at your site, then you wouldn't have to visit all of these other sites to get your fill( just teasing)
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The verification text is nonsense. According to Ed Pernik at the end of March, they were going to remove that "feature". But, it hasn't happened yet.
Although spam can't be entirely stopped, the key is to block spammers at the registration stage via user name, e-mail address, and IP address. Then, supplement that with a touch of hands-on forum administration.
could it be?
When I posted the above, the verification box appeared. But, I just made a post in another thread without having to verify. Has the "feature" been removed? Nope
I don't think
that it applies at every post , just intermittenly
It may be that as a poster establishes his/her bonifieds, verification is not required or required less frequently.
frequency and bonafides
Since they added the text verification, I've had only one instance of that sub-routine not coming up. And, I've been using this login ID for almost three years, with several hundred posts. So, I'm pretty confident that it is supposed to apply to every post. Doing otherwise requires far more juggling in the software.
I have only
had to use it twice
It only came up for me during the first week or two. I hasn't come up in a past couple of weeks. I don't know how many posts I have made but it's probably one per day at least.
The variation with this is quite interesting.
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