F***ing captcha

Szymon Gatner noemail at gmail.com
Fri Jan 3 03:21:41 PST 2014


On Friday, 3 January 2014 at 09:35:54 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote:
>
> Thanks, maybe I was too tired and do not read carefully the 
> captcha ;-).
>
> Dne Fri, 03 Jan 2014 10:19:43 +0100 Vladimir Panteleev 
> <vladimir at thecybershadow.net> napsal(a):
>
>> On Thursday, 2 January 2014 at 20:14:58 UTC, Daniel Kozak 
>> wrote:
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>>> 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.

They are obviously 'o' 'r' and 'k' most likely related to Git.


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