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Hello,
The system in place to prevent spam is highly ineffective. I urge Kiel to change it to a registration / moderation based system. Note how the number of useful posts has dropped. There are no longer open and meaningful discussions here. What a shame...!
what is the depreciating value of the forum more is that the CAPTCHA on each reply that 6 or more months earlier was stated to be temporary now, as a "spam fighter" is just made more combersome
Etrik
Todays captchas are easy compared to the initial version. Now it's only short and easy numbers. Earlier it was random if it was a number of two words of which one word was intentionally garbled.
The only hard number I have seen was once where most of the digits were outside of the image.
But it's correct that the captcha solution was claimed to be a short-term solution before we would get accounts or similar. But short-term may mean 10 years when companies decides that they can't afford to take the step and implement what this web should have been using from day one. So right now, it costs Keil money every single day to have someone spot and kill spam posts.
I guess that, Keil discussion forum's Page rank of search engines is getting lower and lower.
Per,
Now it's only short and easy numbers
forum more is that the CAPTCHA on each reply that 6 or more months earlier was stated to be temporary now, as a "spam fighter" is just made more combersome
so, instead of making the obvious fix (registration) it is just made more difficult to post.
I have even taken to posting 'x' and revising to avoid retyping leghty posts when I got the CAPTCA wrong
Wrong captcha answer should make you lose your post - it's just that you don't get to the preview stage and have to try again.