Requests for Comment/Restore old CAPTCHA

Thanks to the new CAPTCHA, I can’t make an account. You wait 10 minutes, then it says visitors from this IP address have created 1 account in the past five minutes. I hate this. I want the old CAPTCHA. The one with the pictures.

Support

 * 1) As proposer 174.206.233.93 18:40, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 2) YellowFrogger (talk)

Oppose

 * 1) Yeah, no. Not happening. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 18:57, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * It's still happening. And a month ago on YellowFrogger (talk) 06:22, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid it doesn't work that way. The New CAPTCHA was better off to reduce spambots as what the other people were saying. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 10:51, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) The new CAPTCHA has reduced spambot registrations by a lot. If you're having issues creating an account, please email tech@undefinedmiraheze.org.  Agent Isai  Talk to me! 19:27, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Sending email is a waste of time. It's best to go fix the problem on all wikis soon. YellowFrogger (talk) 06:20, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * So is dealing with the spambots that this new CAPTCHA prevented. The new CAPTCHA completely killed off spambot registrations which is very good. The old CAPTCHA was very easy to exploit by robots. Using the old CAPTCHA is the same as using no CAPTCHA. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 13:52, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 1) contact Tech per the above. Better to fix the system to resolve fringe cases than undo the progress that's ultimately happened. --Raidarr (talk) 19:35, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 2) * I suspect that this IP might be the same person who was abusing multiple accounts on the Qualitipedia Central Wiki making pointless Requests for Comment requests that were ultimately deleted, and the users blocked for it. DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 19:41, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 3)  per above. --Magogre (talk)  10:18, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * 4)  Captchas are for antispam. What good is a captcha that isn’t effective at stopping spam. It just defeats the whole purpose of having a captcha if it isn’t effective. v3 needs to stay. MacFan4000 (Talk Contribs) 16:08, 2 October 2021 (UTC)

Comments


the one in the picture above is not the error itself, but it is when you try to create an account again after the error.


 * The people who are voting Oppose here, they have no idea how much the CAPTCHA is getting in the way. I prefer spambots to only create accounts on the wiki, than no user can create an account because of an error in this CAPTCHA YellowFrogger (talk) 17:10, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * That's not something caused by CAPTCHA, this sort of thing could've been implemented even without CAPTCHA or with CAPTCHA v2 too. This is just an antispam feature added by Miraheze directly to curb spambots. While you may not see it, Special:AbuseLog was always full of spambots and it was hard to detect actual vandalism when spam drowned it out. If you have a grievance to file against the account creation error, then I would suggest you express your concerns on the Community noticeboard and see if perhaps this is a bug that a sysadmin could fix rather than trying to axe off something completely unrelated. Agent Isai  Talk to me! 18:44, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Frankly, you have no idea how the spam was becoming before the new captcha was impelemented. The issues are isolated and can be handled by process mentioned a few times above. You might disagree, but it boils to 'agree to disagree' and the disagree vastly overwhelms the agrees so far. --Raidarr (talk) 19:38, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * Finally I was only able to create an account in normal mode. In anonymous mode I can't Yellowass.png (talk) 21:35, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
 * This requests for comment request has been left in dormancy for over a week now, so what are we going to do here? DarkMatterMan4500 (talk) (contribs) 15:09, 9 October 2021 (UTC)