Captcha sign up alternative

[Maz]

You might have noticed having to do a "captcha" when first signing up - one of those boxes where you have to choose a picture. These are to prevent spammers registering but not foolproof, and can be annoying to have to do (I know I find them annoying). So as the spam filter still filters out 10 spammers every 2 hours (which also gets annoying deleting them daily), I'm trying the Cloudflare spam protection at first register. Which means you don't have the annoying Captcha to do! And is supposed to be more effective.

I'll see how it goes. But at least the spam filter works to filter them out and stop them being able to use the forum. I am just trying to minimise the number I need to delete daily.

Registered members might not notice anything different. It's just when people sign up.

 

[Maz]

Well that seems to be working! No spammers to delete today!

 

[Socks Mum]

That's good. Thank you for taking care of us so well on the site

 

[Maz]

It's quite important - forums can get spoiled by spam and we don't want spammers posting dodgy links either!