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

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 20:46:01 UTC, cy wrote:
> On Monday, 23 May 2016 at 18:54:47 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> Hmm, I almost never get that CAPTCHA, and I don't log in to 
>> the forum.  Could be something else about your profile that 
>> Akismet flags: have you tried taking it up with them?
>
> I login here, not with them. They can't tell who I'm logged in 
> here as, I would assume. I can't expect them to make an 
> exception for me if I'm not even logging in with them.

I know, I think you'd want to take up the fact that they think 
you're a spammer up with them though. :)

> Also, they're a huge, faceless corporation that heuristically 
> targets spammers worldwide, and I don't like the idea of my 
> activity being profiled worldwide.

It's run by the company behind Wordpress, which has less than 500 
employees.  Maybe they could sort out why this is hitting you so 
hard, when it doesn't affect others as much.

If you don't want to be profiled, you shouldn't use the web, as 
it's not hard to track you:

https://panopticlick.eff.org

> They do heuristic profiling anyway. They're not supposed to be 
> relied upon as an ultimate authority on who's a spammer. A 
> simple counter for how many captchas solved in a given login is 
> way more reliable than pinging them for the answer every time.

I agree that captchas, particularly the D ones used here, are 
better.  The forum is OSS and written in D, you can submit a PR 
or at least file an issue:

https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed