Title: Why captcha doesn’t work?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Why captcha doesn’t work?

 *  [oculos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oculos/)
 * (@oculos)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-captcha-doesnt-work/)
 * Hello there!
 * I use this great plugin called Captcha!, and I heard that most people that use
   it are quite happy with it. However, here, Akismet still gets lots of spam, the
   same quantity no matter Captcha! is on or off!
 * Can spammers access the comments function directly? Is there anything I can do
   to prevent it?
 * Yours,
 * oculos

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 *  [PozHonks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pozhonks/)
 * (@pozhonks)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-captcha-doesnt-work/#post-409696)
 * Because spammers are using trackbacks and not comments. They seem to look the
   same once posted, but they are different.
    If, you don’t care about trackbacks,
   you can disable it. In options -> Discussions uncheck “Attempt to notifiy any
   weblogs”, and “allow link notification”. In Options -> Miscellaneous, uncheck“
   Track Links’ Update Times”.
 *  Thread Starter [oculos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oculos/)
 * (@oculos)
 * [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-captcha-doesnt-work/#post-409725)
 * I tried to disable trackbacks once, but it didn’t work… And they do seem the 
   same… 🙁

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 * Last reply from: [oculos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oculos/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-captcha-doesnt-work/#post-409725)
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