captcha or not captcha?

hi, I'm developing a RoR application and I'm doing the registration and contact pages, the two most important things are the accessibility of the site and the multi language support (I think by globalize). So the question is, I should use a captcha for these pages? I think that if I won't use it I'll get a lot of useless records in the db, but with a captcha the accessibility became low... and a logic captcha i think that will be a problem for a multiple language support.. what do you suggest me ? I thought about a javascript captcha, can be ok? what do you think ?

Maybe look at the form-spam-protection plugin if you're willing to require javascript...

http://code.google.com/p/form-spam-protection/

I've got that on a site I did for a contact form and to my knowledge the recipient hasn't had any problems...

-philip

Philip Hallstrom wrote:

hi, I'm developing a RoR application and I'm doing the registration and contact pages, the two most important things are the accessibility of the site and the multi language support (I think by globalize). So the question is, I should use a captcha for these pages? I think that if I won't use it I'll get a lot of useless records in the db, but with a captcha the accessibility became low... and a logic captcha i think that will be a problem for a multiple language support.. what do you suggest me ? I thought about a javascript captcha, can be ok? what do you think ?

Maybe look at the form-spam-protection plugin if you're willing to require javascript...

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I've got that on a site I did for a contact form and to my knowledge the recipient hasn't had any problems...

-philip

and if the js is disabled what happen? a captcha is shown? do you think is better to have a captcha ?

Then alternative HTML is shown indicating that the user needs to enable javascript...