On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 00:35:13 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 12/02/2014 10:41 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> Although forum.dlang.org has had a spam check and used reCAPTCHA since
>> it was announced, it is only somewhat effective against fully-automated
>> bots - it is powerless against humans paid to post spamverts on forums
>> web-wide, which is what the current spam economy seems to be gravitating
>> towards.
>
> Ha ha, my first thought was, can't you use something else than reCAPTCHA, which is also known for tracking.
>
> Good idea, but the demo site is down right now :(.
> http://wiki.dlang.org/extensions/DCaptcha/demo.php

Ah, fixed. Broke that when I updated to the easy version.

>> Good idea, but the demo site is down right now :(.
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/extensions/DCaptcha/demo.php
>
> Ah, fixed. Broke that when I updated to the easy version.

Nice one, failed the first try :).
You should probably reload on failure, or maybe only after the 3rd attempt or so.
Looks like you ruled out at least half of the spammers.
http://blog.codinghorror.com/separating-programming-sheep-from-non-programming-goats/

On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 11:04:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>> Good idea, but the demo site is down right now :(.
>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/extensions/DCaptcha/demo.php
>>
>> Ah, fixed. Broke that when I updated to the easy version.
>
> Nice one, failed the first try :).
> You should probably reload on failure, or maybe only after the 3rd attempt or so.

This is a very simple demo page (you can even see the answers in the HTML source code). The forum will give you a different question on a wrong answer, as well as invite the user to reload the page to get a different challenge.

Hopefully I can find the regression and make it live again soon.

"""
What will be the return value of the following function?

int y()
{
  int d = 31, baz = 5;
  baz--;
  d /= baz;
  return d;
}

"""
Oh, the irony! Asking people to prove they're human by making them to
complete a task that is usually done by machines.  :-)

--bb

On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:26 AM, Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce <digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 11 December 2014 at 11:04:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
>
>> Good idea, but the demo site is down right now :(.
>>>> http://wiki.dlang.org/extensions/DCaptcha/demo.php
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ah, fixed. Broke that when I updated to the easy version.
>>>
>>
>> Nice one, failed the first try :).
>> You should probably reload on failure, or maybe only after the 3rd
>> attempt or so.
>>
>
> This is a very simple demo page (you can even see the answers in the HTML source code). The forum will give you a different question on a wrong answer, as well as invite the user to reload the page to get a different challenge.
>
> Hopefully I can find the regression and make it live again soon.
>

On 12/11/2014 07:51 PM, Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> Oh, the irony! Asking people to prove they're human by making them to
> complete a task that is usually done by machines.  :-)

Let's hope the spammers don't get clever enough to let our machines (dpaste or drepl) solve that task for them.
You should add random syntax mistakes Vladimir ;).