I f**ckin hate the re Captcha!!!!

It is probably blocking robots since it's blockin any normal person trying to sign up. The only one succedding in joining must have the willpower of a thousand gods!

Kill me now!!!!

i didn't like it either, it's very difficult to read so i just removed it.
Two page join form, human question, and blocking some e-mail providers works for now.

Thanks!

It will have to go. Human question sounds good. Will do some searching on that.

Here is what I did. It is simple and damn effective.  http://www.boonex.com/forums/?action=goto&search=1#topic/D7-1-Simple-Spam-Bot-Stopper.htm

Is there a way to remove ReCAPTCHA from the contact form?

Yes, open up contact.php (located in the root of your Dolphin install) and find the part for ReCaptcha and remove it or comment it out.

            /*
            'captcha' => array(
                'type' => 'captcha',
                'caption' => _t('_Enter what you see'),
                'name' => 'securityImageValue',
                'required' => true,
                'checker' => array(
                    'func' => 'captcha',
                    'error' => _t( '_Incorrect Captcha' ),
                ),
            ), */

The /* at the beginning and the */ at the end means that everything inside will be viewed as a comment.

thanks geek. saved me once again!

You are welcomed.  If you start getting hit by bots filling and submitting the form, then a stop bot solution for the contact form will need to be implemented; just not Captcha.

How would i implement a stop bot on the contact form?

I just don't like the captcha - its horrible.

Do you want a free solution or a paid solution?  One thing you can do is to put a question that must be answered.  If you use language keys, then you can tie into the different languages on your site.  You might could put an image there and then have the person to select the correct answer.  For example, an image of a kitten and then have it where they click or select the correct answer; again with language keys you can have in different languages.  They select "kitten", and can then submit the form.  There may be some replacements in the market for the contact.php page

I don't mind paying a small fee for the right module.

On my join form I have the question: 'delete this text and leave empty' which works well as a spam bot checker.

Howerver, I don't see how I can add this to the contact form as that page is not editable. 

You would hand code it into the contact.php file.  Let's play with this and see if we can get something that will work:

I had you to comment out the captcha.  In stead of commenting it out, make the following changes; you may want to backup your current contact.php file.

            'captcha' => array(
                'type' => 'text',
                'caption' => _t('_Delete the contents of the box'),
                'name' => 'BotBlocker',
                'value' => _t('_Delete this text'),
                'required' => false,
                'checker' => array(
                    'func' => 'length',
                    'params' => array(0, 0),
                    'error' => _t( '_Delete the contents of the box' )
                ),
            ),

I used language keys but you can enter the text directly instead of using keys.  However, the language keys will allow you to translate to the other languages on your site.  For example, "value" => "Delete this text",

Cheers geek_girl, that works perfectly on my contact form.

Dave