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[spdave Friend spdaveJoin date: August 2009Posts: 55Downloads:0Uploads:7 Thanks: 8]

#146943

Hello,

I receive some “bad >:(” application now from the apply now form in job details.

Is it possible to add a small captcha in forms available for everybody ?

Thanks

[Anonymous Moderator JA DeveloperJoin date: September 2014Posts: 9914Downloads:207Uploads:152 Thanks: 1789 Thanked: 2008 times in 1700 posts]

#327052

Hi there,

I have created an issue for your suggestion on JA project management system here: http://pm.joomlart.com/browse/JAJB-232

This shall be reviewed and if viable and highly demanded, it shall be auto update to new version.

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[tekknoir Friend tekknoirJoin date: September 2009Posts: 14Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 2 Thanked: 1 times in 1 posts]

#328571

I’ll second that 😛

Captcha for guest posts would be good (or just making it so you can’t apply for jobs without logging in). I get a fair few spambots on my site (mostly MMO currencies and gentlemens medications), and have to moderate comments and such.

If you log into your demo site right now as employer, and look at your applications, you’ll see there’s about 3 “genuine” applications at the bottom, followed by about 50 which were filled in by spambots (note in particular the frequency of posts, how similar they are but with some letters changed, and the fact that they’re trying to use BBCode to insert links to sites which have been taken down for hosting malware). I suspect if you looked in the database at applications for all employers, you’d see mountains and mountains of them.

I’d rather not spend several hours a day deleting spam job applications and apologising repeatedly to my users for the inconvenience.

Would also be good for registration – stops spambots signing up for accounts in the first place. Can I use the community builder registration component? It has a captcha addon, so I could use that and modify the template so it checks if you’re logged in before allowing you to view the application form…

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#328659

Hi there,

I would like to inform that Captcha for application has been completed and will be released with version 1.4.0.
Regarding your question: “Can I use the community builder registration component?”
=> I am afraid that JB does not support with regard to comunity builder.

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[sider Friend siderJoin date: January 2010Posts: 3Downloads:0Uploads:0 Thanks: 3]

#346332

<em>@JA Developer 159555 wrote:</em><blockquote>Hi there,

I would like to inform that Captcha for application has been completed and will be released with version 1.4.0.
Regarding your question: “Can I use the community builder registration component?”
=> I am afraid that JB does not support with regard to comunity builder.</blockquote>

Where can you enable this captcha, i searched high and low but can’t find it.

[spdave Friend spdaveJoin date: August 2009Posts: 55Downloads:0Uploads:7 Thanks: 8]

#346335

Hi Sider,

You could enable the captcha in job posting configuration in the admin panel of JA JOB (global config, job posting tab) :

At bottom, see : Enable code verification for application?: No Yes

All the best

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