I'm working on a very simple blog for a client. I used the files from the documentation tutorial as a starting point.

The captcha in the comment form is just plain ugly and not very userfriendly. Is it possible to disable the captcha and how?

[KK]

Hello and welcome, gibso80

The captcha in the comment form is just plain ugly and not very userfriendly.

Couldn't agree more

I think you'll find the following thread useful where we discuss alternatives to captcha (including the one used in comment form)
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7047

Hope this helps.

I apparently solved the problem myself First i tried to outcomment the captcha i my template, and it didn't show on the site but the form wouldn't validate. When i erased the captcha from the template i worked fine.

I'm not a experienced coder, and can't figure out why outcommenting didn't work

[KK]

I am glad you could get rid of the captcha
However, please do put in any another form of spam protection (viewtopic.php?f=8&t=7047) else you'll be inviting loads of spam for sure.

I will try to convince my client to have another spamfilter, but she is not very fond of the "quizzes".

[KK]

At least put in the mentioned <cms:stop_spam /> tag.
It is completely non-obtrusive.

I didn't like to use captcha also and did try this on my forms:

<cms:input style="display:none;" type="text" name="checkrobots" value="" validator='!= '''/>

This will hide the field checkrobots and check if the field stays empty .. if not a robot must have filled this in. Until now this seems to work.