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A question regarding reCAPTCHA...
I see that you have included the option of implementing reCAPTCHA for Contact form spam Protection in Backlight. I did a quick search in this forum for implementation advice. I get the sense that implementing reCAPTCHA is not particularly recommended, as there is built in Spam protection already there! In the five to six months that I have had Backlight, I have only seen a couple of suspicious emails coming from my contact form.... I do not normally get a lot of traffic from the contact form!
My questions are:
1) Should I go to the effort of implementing reCAPTCHA as a preemptive solution for a problem that may or may not exist?
2) At what point does it become necessary to have the increased Spam protect that reCAPTCHA offers?
3) How is reCAPTCHA viewed in the internet community.... is it seen as yet another Google intrusion, a necessary 'evil', or the best innovation since sliced bread?
4) How does it impact the user of my contact form? Other than the inconvenience of possibly having to go through a verification routine.
Thanks for your comments!
Kevin
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1: that's really up to you. Personally, I'll wait until I get annoyed.
2: again, that's really your call; whenever spam gets annoying to you
3: I've not seen much about it, but try a search on "How is reCAPTCHA viewed in the internet community"
4: minimal impact, just a checkbox, basically. Here's one on my test site: http://pangolin.barbeephoto.com/?page=contact-2
Rod
Just a user with way too much time on his hands.
www.rodbarbee.com
ttg-tips.com, Backlight 2/3 test site
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As for effort, the hard work for implementation has already been done. Configuring Backlight to enable reCAPTCHA is a relatively simple task.
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I've had a few SPAM emails so I implemented it. Very simple to do and, at least from my experience, seems to be somewhat of a standard around the web.
Charlie
www.stalkinglight.com
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