Where should the Captcha Settings page be located?

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Posted by robloach on June 28, 2007 at 7:29am
admin/settings/captcha
14% (1 vote)
admin/user/captcha
71% (5 votes)
Other (post a comment)
14% (1 vote)
Total votes: 7
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Captcha Settings Location

Posted by robloach on June 28, 2007 at 7:32am
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Soxofaan made an interesting point:

Shouldn't we move the captcha settings page(s) from the general settings (now: ?q=admin/settings/captcha) to the user management (like ?q=admin/user/captcha)?
Captcha is closely related to access control and user settings (?q=admin/user), so I think it makes sense to move it from the general-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink settings category ("site configuration") to a more sensible one ("user management").

Personally, I think admin/user/captcha makes more sense. Captcha tends to deal more with user permissions, so should we group it with all the other user related settings? What do you guys think?

Captcha Settings Location

Posted by hunthunthunt on June 28, 2007 at 4:14pm
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Either way, I don't think it makes a significant difference. I feel it'd be best to leave it where it is now, moving it will cause confusion for a lot of users.

Either way, I don't think it

Posted by soxofaan on June 29, 2007 at 11:32am
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Either way, I don't think it makes a significant difference.

The difference is indeed not significant, it just makes it more logical, which is reason enough for me.

I feel it'd be best to leave it where it is now, moving it will cause confusion for a lot of users.

I guess compared to the frustration of the current captcha user base, the this confusion would be peanuts ;)
Joking aside: considering the current buggy/frustrating situation of captcha, I think now is the right time to make some bigger changes (like breaking some backward compatibility or user expectations). If we succeed in creating a captcha new generation (works out of the box (TM)), I think users will be happy to swallow a insignificant page move.
Drupal also breaks compatibility from time to time, it hurts af first, but in the end you have a better drupal. No pain no gain.

Captcha settings page final location

Posted by davidshaw on December 14, 2010 at 10:45pm
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It must be based on this vote because the Captcha settings are now located at:

admin/user/captcha

Which takes a bit of digging and hence my google search landing here.

Dave Shaw

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