Captcha for Contact Forms: Lose Customers/ Clients?

This is not really a wordpress question and is probably best addressed on social media. FWIW, I think that most of us are used to captchas,and though mildly annoyed, put up with them. There are other tools you can use, like Akismet, to filter out spam.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 10 months ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).

Steve, yes it is a wordpress question. (if you get / use a wordpress plug in for captcha) I’m not sure which forum is best, as this entire forum site has always been complete chaos to me as far as where to post, or even find the post button.

Yes, asking people, many I hope can chime in, feedback on using Captha:if they think: I would lose some business each year. Are there other who concur with this?

“ost of use re used to captchas,and though mildly annoyed, put up with them. There are ”

That is not the question,, well I guess it is partly, some clients may be lost by not bothering, the real reason, I have not uses Captha, yet and put up with spam, is that even if they do the captha, what they fail, are legit clients, and you never hear from them? that the more scary issue.

If you have any great form recommendations let me know, though have nothing to do with social media. Few good forums these days

I have Askimet on my blog, have not thought of putting it on my consumer business website. Would askimet get true spammers off of the Captha form?

No antispam plugin is perfect.

>> I would lose some business each year. Are there other who concur with this? <<

Again, this best discussed elsewhere. SEO forums, marketing forums, and hopefully, someone will have some hard data on this.

There are no good SEO or Marketing forums.

PS, thanks Steve though for the Asskimet idead, for some reason WP forms still does not supoort and yet they have no good solution for spam. They put their on filter thing in but without ability to monitor false positives and they continue push garbage Captchas.

But thanks for reminding me about Askimet, contact form 7 does use it but don’t have energy to make a new form so stuck

My go-to form plugin is “formidable”.

Does Formidable forms have an Askimet type spam system where you can review the spam submissions?

No. You use an spam or captcha plugin with it.