Spam attack on the Wiki

Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Aug 12 16:13:40 PDT 2014


On Tuesday, 12 August 2014 at 22:56:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> OTOH, are these tests triggered only when the wiki/forum post 
> contains
> suspicious content (like links to questionable sites)? We 
> wouldn't want
> to discourage legit participation by forcing everyone to solve
> programming puzzles every time they try to contribute / ask 
> something.
> We definitely don't want to turn newbies off by making 
> challenges that
> require too much in-depth knowledge of D.

Yes. As I understand, the CAPTCHA will only be triggered:

1. On registration;
2. After several failed login attempts;
3. When adding links to external sites.

Registered users can bypass CAPTCHAs by confirming their email 
address.


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