F***ing captcha

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Thursday, 2 January 2014 at 20:14:58 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote:
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> F***ing captcha F***ing captcha F***ing captcha F***ing captcha 
> F***ing captcha F***ing captcha F***ing captcha F***ing captcha

Hi,

The forum software used to have a bug where if you failed the 
first CAPTCHA, it would fail all successive CAPTCHA attempts for 
that post submission. It appears to still be fixed, though.

I've tested CAPTCHA functionality just now, and it seems to be 
working properly. I've tried about 5 times and only once I got a 
challenge with an unclear solution. If you get a challenge and 
you're not confident in your solution, it's better to click the 
arrow-circle button to get a different challenge.

I've checked the logs for the past month, and it seems that, with 
all the other spam-preventive measures in place, Akismet is now 
more effective at generating false positives than at actually 
blocking spam. (It has something against Mono-D in particular, it 
seems.) I'm going to try sending feedback of the false positives 
so far, hopefully that will "teach" it that such posts are not 
spam. If that doesn't work, I'll disable it entirely or look into 
replacing it with something else.