Cohere reCaptcha-ed
Yesterday, we discovered that some of the users on Cohere were actually spam, the usernames were random characters and the descriptions on these users profiles consisted entirely of links for loans, pills etc (all the usual spam). To try and stop this happening again I’ve added reCaptcha to the user registration form.
This was really easy to implement, the only slight change I had to make was to fix the code so requests to the recaptcha servers went through our proxy (shame there aren’t optional params to add proxy details – but easy enough to fix).
Had the same problem when using reCaptcha inside Drupal through a proxy, was easy enough to solve though: http://www.greenhughes.com/content/recaptcha-drupal-and-proxy-way-make-it-all-work-together Have been using reCaptcha for a while now and have found it very useful for tackling spam comments. The audio option is really good as well to increase the accessibility of a site.
Useful information on proxies. Thanks! Would a proxy also be worth it browsing the internet?