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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