Watchdog.chat vs. reCAPTCHA
๐ With Watchdog, you'll never have to lose a user to an impossible-to-read CAPTCHA again:
Here's the problem with CAPTCHAs...
โ CAPTCHAs only prevent simple spambots that can't solve a CAPTCHA from joining
โ They are so annoying that real humans will often just avoid or fail to fill them out
โ They don't prevent against human bad actors that are out to ruin your community and they can't handle more advanced bots that break CAPTCHAs
On the other hand...
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Watchdog.chat costs a small amount and reCAPTCHA is free up to 10K assessments, but as the saying goes, "you get what you pay for"
Best Value
Watchdog.chat
Starting at:
Get WatchdogUnlimited messages
There are limits on each plan to prevent abuse, but just get in touch and mention how large your community is if you need more.
Unlimited communities
A community means a Telegram group, a Subreddit, a Discord Server, an X Community, etc.
10 custom rules/community
These are the number of rules you can define using natural language for each of your communities.
Customizable punishments
Mix-and-match different punishments like Kick, Ban, Mute, Alert Admins, Alert Channel, Delete Message for each rule.
- Communitywide rules
- Text moderation
Unicode text conversion
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International languages
Moderates messages in English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Russian.
- Professional support
- 7-day money back guarantee
- Channel-specific rules
- Image moderation
- Voice moderation
- Webhooks
reCAPTCHA
Starting at:
Get Watchdog- Unlimited messages
- Unlimited communities
No custom rules at all
Only prevents bots that can't solve a puzzle from joining. Doesn't prevent against human bad actors either.
- Customizable punishments
- Communitywide rules
- Text moderation
- Unicode text conversion
- International languages
- Professional support
Sometimes free
reCAPTCHA has a free plan, but they start charging $8 after you hit 10,000 assessments
- Channel-specific rules
- Image moderation
- Voice moderation
- Webhooks