Capcha?

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  ashevilleninjas · Member · Jan 21, 2015 at 7:41 pm

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  I am getting daily spam through my summer camp contact form. Can I add a capcha?

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Jan 21, 2015 at 10:12 pm

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  Hi there,

  Unfortunately, captchas are not possible on WordPress.com. Although captchas do provide a primary level of defense against spambots, some of the more sophisticated bots are now able to read the more simple captchas, and they are getting better all the time.

  To get around things like like captcha, spammers are now paying people to make comments for them, and since they are “human” they simply enter the captcha and post their spam.

  Additionally, Akismet is a learning engine, and if you consistently mark spam messages as spam, Akismet will learn to recognize that spam and start filtering it out automatically.

  You can learn more about this here:

  http://akismet.com/how/

  Let me know if you have any questions with this!

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  ashevilleninjas · Member · Jan 21, 2015 at 10:33 pm

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  thank you

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  gracejiyoung · Member · Jan 21, 2015 at 10:47 pm

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  You’re welcome!