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Requiring to solve ReCapcha after may be more sensible than the usual use case where ReCapcha is required before any interaction. Let the user create account,
by jknz 7y ago
Requiring to solve ReCapcha after may be more sensible than the usual use case where ReCapcha is required before any interaction.
Let the user create account, let the user create first comment/post, save it somewhere but hide it, then require ReCapcha to make the post visible and activate the account.
The issue with requiring ReCapcha before is that the website owner will never know whether a legitimate user was turned away or whether it was spam.
- dorgo 7y agoAnd how does the timing change things? You want to look at first comments/posts to determine whether it was spam or not?
- jknz 7y agoAfter the post is saved (but hidden until the user solves ReCapcha) you can look at the database and analyse what's happening. Did ReCapcha turned away an interesting post by a legit user? What is the ratio of spans versus legit users? Etc. If you turn both spammers and annoyed users with ReCapcha before any interaction,you will never know how many were legit and you won't be able to manually accept interesting legitimate content written by a user that is annoyed by Recapcha.