Editing User talk:CrookKilla (section)

== Welcome! (and sorry about the CAPTCHAs) ==

Hi, I've just been catching up on your post history and you've raised some good points.

With regards to the CAPTCHAs, our use of hCAPTCHA seeks to avoid the worst of the privacy issues associated with reCAPTCHA. We can see the level of spam that is attempted on the wiki, and the CAPTCHAs do a decent job of keeping it at a manageable rate (obviously not stopping it, but it means that we can keep the Wiki open to anonymous edits and maintain a non-invasive signup process -e.g. not asking for phone numbers, etc.). We generally seek to remove the requirements to fill in CAPTCHAs for users as quickly as possible after we can tell they're making good faith edits, though sometimes it does take a few days if we miss someone initially.

Some of the suggestions you posted seem like good ideas, particularly the honeypot and temporary tokens (the other two are a bit invasive), and I'll forward them to the technical folks for consideration as and when it's possible to do so. 

More importantly, I've confirmed your account, so you shouldn't need to worry about CAPTCHAs any more!


Thank you for coming along, and best wishes,

Keith (wiki manager) [[User:Keith|Keith]] ([[User talk:Keith|talk]]) 14:47, 3 July 2025 (UTC)