Configuration Options

  • Resolved maltfield

    (@maltfield)


    4 years, 6 months ago

    Hey Ryan,

    Thanks so much for developing this plugin, it looks really great!

    After installing it, I was a bit shocked that there was no settings page for the user to be able to configure the plugin. For example, it would be great if I could:

    1. Tune the difficulty for hashcash
    2. Specify a question (input field) and a custom regex “answer” that’s correct

    #1 is obvious. #2 would be great for thwarting people who write spam tools specifically to bypass this plugin. Giving the user the ability to set a specific additional question would require the spammer to design their tool to target their site specifically, which greatly increases the level of difficulty.

    A simple example is what I use to protect my email address on my website. My question is simply: “what is my last name?” It’s a question that’s damn-easy to figure out for a human, and automated spammers would almost certainly fail it–making it a great additional step to the CAPTCHA. Example here:

    * https://email.michaelaltfield.net

    Note: I also ask for my first name in a div that’s float-left’ed by 9001 pixels. If that has any contents in it, they fail ??

    What do you think about adding the ability for the user to require commenters to solve a user-defined input field? And fine-tune the hashcash difficulty?

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  • Plugin Author Ryan Hellyer

    (@ryanhellyer)

    Adding a settings page sorta goes against the point of the plugin. It’s intended as a drop-in solution with no settings or configuration required. Having said that, it should be possible to add those features via extension plugins, and if it’s not possible already, then I’m happy to add extra hooks, filters etc. as required.

    Plugin Author Ryan Hellyer

    (@ryanhellyer)

    Woops! I just realised you posted this six days ago. I didn’t see your message until now sorry.

    I should actually have a good look through this plugin at some point. It’s been working fine for me for years, so I haven’t needed to make any changes, but I should really go through and check for problems some day, so thanks for inadvertently prompting me to do that. I’m going to stick it in my calendar to remind me to take a look at it some day ??

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