Closed Bug 909479 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Add captcha to Submit Your Feedback Page

Categories

(Input Graveyard :: Submission, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: feer56, Unassigned)

References

Details

There is a high amount of spam that goes through this page: https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback/#intro 

I say that we can reduce it by have users filling out a captcha.
One key idea with Input is to make it as easy as possible for people to give feedback. Adding a captcha will make this harder. On something like a forum, it is important to keep spam out of the stream, so a captcha might be considered. In this case, any barrier, including a captcha, will lower the amount of feedback we get, which is undesirable.

I also question your premise that "There is a high amount of spam that goes through [the feedback page]". Looking at the current front page of input.mozila.com, filtered to only show English results, I only see one thing that could be considered spam, which I think is actually a really good ratio. 

In short: I am strongly against this proposal, and think this bug should be WONTFIXEDed.
Will is looking into this in 910767.
Depends on: 910767
I'm looking at spam problems and ways to alleviate our specific spam issues in the context of Input for bug #910767, but I agree with Mike and don't think a captcha is a good solution here. I'm going to mark this one as WONTFIX.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Input → Input Graveyard
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