Image Verification When Logged In?

[Piyono]

Why do I need to verify an image when I've logged into the forum?


Piyono

[christina]

Sorry for this inconvenience. The admin do this to prevent spam since we were getting so much spam.

[regkaz]

Why should "search" require image verification? Searching does not generate spam, posting does. If anyone else is like me it can take a dozen searches before I find the term that gets me the exact information I need. Why should a paying customer with bad eyes be punished because some feature was not made clear in your manual?

If spam is a real issue then solve it the same way other forums do. One way is to automatically give posting rights to those that sign up with the email address of a paying customer.

The other is to weed out spam robots. Use the two step method. First, when someone signs up ask them a question that a robot would have trouble answering (e.g. Show a picture of a bowl of fruit and ask how many bananas there are). Then send an email requiring a response to fully activate the account.

This works. I had a forum that was choked with spam but when I added a single, one-time question that required thought all the spam ended and my users were very appreciative of being freed from the image verification.

Ric

[christina]

Thanks for advice. That sounds a more postive user experience, but currently we don't enable email verification so as to relieve server delivery.

[Piyono]

Most forums only use search page image verification for guests. Once a subscriber is logged in s/he is VERIFIED (i.e. not a bot) and can therefore browse uninhibited.

The last poster makes a good point: on a single visit to the forum I may have to search for something a good number of times until I get my terms right or whatever. Having to fill in the image verification — especially when I'm already LOGGED ON — grows old very quickly, and on some days I get fed up before finding my answer.

Don't forget that your user forum is an extension of your public image.


Piyono


INSTINCTIVELY , in posting this reply I just clicked "Submit" without checking the image verification and almost closed the browser window before I realized that I was brought back here. It's SO frustrating! Change it! Please!