forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 3 00:28:24 PST 2014


On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 08:24:46 UTC, Gary Willoughby 
wrote:
> On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:41:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
> wrote:
>> Enter DCaptcha, a question-answer challenge tailored for D 
>> programmers. Its goals are to challenge posters of 
>> suspicious-looking content with questions that should be easy 
>> to answer to D programmers, and impossible for non-technical 
>> people with no incentive to learn or research stuff (i.e. 
>> spammers). DCaptcha is already in use on the D wiki 
>> (wiki.dlang.org), with great success - DCaptcha's debut cut 
>> the short-lived explosion in wiki spam to zero.
>
> I think this is a bad idea because developers new to the 
> language
> will be turned away. Also i think a lot of these 'easy' 
> questions
> are just too hard. I've tried the demo and found it fustrating
> that i need a few trys to get them right.

Got it. But we're not going back to reCAPTCHA either. I'm tired 
of deleting spam by hand.

Please suggest some ideas (or better, send pull requests).


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