Thread:Extension talk:ConfirmEdit/SimpleCaptcha now useless/reply

Agreed... I just finished removing it from a pile of Uncyclopedia languages for this very reason and have updated this page accordingly (to suggest migration to VisualMathCaptcha or one of the others).

ReCAPTCHA is problematic for sites in foreign languages with non-Latin character sets as the captchas themselves are taken from old books in a limited selection of languages. English and French are there, Ukraine and Japan might not be.

Nonetheless, I note this page claims:
 * Part of the weakness of the ReCaptcha module is that ConfirmEdit doesn't include any penalty mechanism, so spam bots can simply keep trying to bypass the CAPTCHA until they get through. This is an issue that is strongly worth addressing in some way.

Perhaps this should be reported as a bug for *all* categories of CAPTCHA, especially the trivial maths problems. I could very arbitrarily decide to submit spam, code a script to presume the answer is 6, then send the same rubbish repeatedly and be challenged with different CAPTCHA images until the answer to one just happened to be six... spam, spam, it's better than ham. Changing the code to autoblock an IP after a few failed attempts would greatly cut down that risk. --Carlb (talk) 01:39, 2 March 2012 (UTC)