forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha
Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Tue Dec 2 22:52:22 PST 2014
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 01:48:57 UTC, krzaq wrote:
> Asking for feature names is a very bad choice, you're
> essentially excluding all beginners and it's almost impossible
> to google the answers (you want to exclude lazy uninterested
> humans, not all of them, right?).
The answers not being Google-able is a goal. The Wiki CAPTCHA was
easily defeated when a spammer Googled the answer.
> For example, apparently calling the following a "raw string" or
> "raw string literal" is faux pas in the D language.
There are many acceptable answers for that question.
> As for math/algorithms, this one feels too advanced:
>> return iota(9).reduce!"a+b";
I could add links to DPaste and the #d IRC channel.
> tl;dr: waaaaaaaaaaay too difficult
Well, pull requests are welcome. However, I should add that the
rate of false positives for spam detection is extremely low.
Yesterday, four valid posting attempts were challenged with a
CAPTCHA, and all were caused by StopForumSpam not understanding
the IP address, which has now been fixed.
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