Could forum.dlang.org remember how many captchas I filled out?

Basile B. via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue May 24 05:59:39 PDT 2016


On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 17:56:17 UTC, cy wrote:
>> [...]
>
> I've filled out one of these for every post I've made here. Yet 
> I'm logged in, with a persistent state on the server side. 
> Could something be implemented along the lines of:
>
> ALTER TABLE users ADD COLUMN num_captchas_solved INTEGER 
> DEFAULT 0 NOT NULL ETC;
>
> I can understand if even an ordinary user like myself could be 
> suspected of spam. The Internet doesn't make it easy to 
> distinguish in a lot of cases. But my account login status 
> does. If you made it so someone solving 12 captchas didn't get 
> asked any more (until they actually start sending spam), that'd 
> be really nice.
>
> You could even award achievements! (Achievement unlocked: On 
> Fire. 100 posts in a week? Jeezus!)
>
> Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but this is 
> regarding the posting server on forums.dlang.org, which I use 
> to access all these mailing lists and such, without getting all 
> the messages in all the lists sent to my email inbox.

One thing that could be done is to disable the spam checker when 
the user is registered. As a counter part registering must be 
very strong: image capcha + text capcha + guess the code result + 
?


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