CAPTCHA requirement in SPAM forum
Posted: Oct 1st, '10, 14:49
Hello people,
since we were experiencing several cases of abuse with posting bots, we were forced to introduce a new restriction. Posting in the spam forum (which is the place where botting most often occured, obviously) requires a CAPTCHA test every few posts randomly. I hope I have chosen a probability of a test appearing that doesn't get on your nerves too much and still discourages people from botting, though I'll have to adjust this number as we try and see what happens.
I certainly hope this helps, without scaring away honest people.
On a sidenote, we have ordered the second server finally, and I expect to be able to set up & migrate the database around the end of next week. Hope this will rid us from our performance problems for a while...
Have fun!
since we were experiencing several cases of abuse with posting bots, we were forced to introduce a new restriction. Posting in the spam forum (which is the place where botting most often occured, obviously) requires a CAPTCHA test every few posts randomly. I hope I have chosen a probability of a test appearing that doesn't get on your nerves too much and still discourages people from botting, though I'll have to adjust this number as we try and see what happens.
I certainly hope this helps, without scaring away honest people.
On a sidenote, we have ordered the second server finally, and I expect to be able to set up & migrate the database around the end of next week. Hope this will rid us from our performance problems for a while...
Have fun!
