TOPIC: How to activate captcha support?

Hi!
I just installed the CCommend extension. I'm not getting it managed to enable the Captcha support. How can I do that?

[Edit]
I'm using Joomla 3.1.1

Thanks,
Michael

On the security tab you just enable captcha? That should be all?

Thanks for the quick replay!
I think I'm missing something on that tab. Please see the attached screenshot.
filestore.su/scr.png

Hey Michael,
You are looking at the wrong place. Go back to the settings and click on the plugin settings name and then on the security tab you'll find the captcha.

May I also ask why do you want to enable it? Do you get spam?

Regards,
Daniel

Now I found it. I just did not realize, that I need to click on "com_content" to get to the security settings ^^

I just set up the web site yesterday. So i did not get any Spam jet. But I'm expecting it. I've one more web site with a comment plugin. I'm getting Spam there.

Thanks,
Michael

Can you do me a favor? Disable the captcha support until you receive the first spam and let me know when this happens ?

Daniel,
You seem to feel that comment spam would be unusual, but I have switched to CComment Core after using another comment system that did not migrate to Joomla 3.x and that system was plagued with comment spam. Every day I would have to go in and mark comments as spam so that they would not clutter up my pages. The spam comments far outnumbered the legitimate ones.

That being said, I had originally enabled captcha on my site, and specified that it should only be used for Public and Guests. In testing, the captcha authentication was displayed and required entry even when I, as the Super Administrator, would try to comment.

Any thoughts about why that might be?

Regards,
Ryan

PS: I had a log of all the ips that posted spam comments and entered them into the ban list. Hopefully this will cut down on the problem. Can you use wildcards in the ban list? For instance, could I use 123.123.123.* to ban all of the ips in that particular subnet?

Hey Ryan,
I'm using CComment 5 since April on compojoom.com and so far I've received around 10 spam comments for this time. And I think that this were people posting and not machines. I don't say that ccomment is immune to spam, no it is not. But people will need to write special scripts to exploit ccomment.

Anyway -> don't select the public & guest for the captcha group. Just select guests. All other groups belong to public and that is why everyone will see a captcha.

As far the Ips is concerned - no you can't use wildcards there.

Cheers,
Daniel