# Captcha Support

With Pootle’s flexible permissions several ways of interacting with your translation community are possible. If you have a very open Pootle server, you might want to ensure that spammers don’t abuse it by enabling captchas.

## Configuration

If you have no need for captchas, e.g. at a translation sprint, you might want to remove captcha support. To disable it, set `POOTLE_CAPTCHA_ENABLED` in your configuration file to `False`. Restart your server for the setting to take effect.

## Customization

The captchas can be customized. Look at the captcha template and code:

- pootle/templates/captcha.html and
- pootle/middleware/captcha.py

and make the changes you need.