Hi - i have several users telling me that the math captcha is not correct - the addition is wrong.

last one was 10+8 = 18 but told 18 is wrong.

user loses comment and 2 users basically told me they won't waste the time to redo the comment.

any ideas?

thanks!

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allen074’s picture

allen074 commented

without this in place, I am getting hammered with spam comments - any advice people? :)

thanks!

allen074’s picture

allen074 commented

bounty offered - please let me know!

thomas.jones’s picture

thomas.jones commented

I've got the same problem. Is really there no fix for this?

soxofaan’s picture

soxofaan commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Well, the best way to fix this is upgrading to Drupal 5 and CAPTCHA 5.x-3.0.

CAPTCHA version 5.x-2.x and earlier (including the 4.7.x) are known to be buggy/unstable.

In version 5.x-3.x, the CAPTCHA module got a mayor overhaul and the module is now much better.

It is very unlikely that the improvements will be backported to drupal 4.7.x
Especially now that Drupal 6 is getting shape, the priority for us, the CAPTCHA maintainers, is to port CAPTCHA to Drupal 6 and not to a version that will be outdated soon.
Note that the 5.x-3.0 overhaul was not something trivial, backporting it to 4.7.x would practically mean rewriting it from scratch. We can't invest time on this.
Sorry.

Is there any particular reason you still using Drupal 4.7?