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Couldn't CAPTCHA be disabled for already registered and "tested" users? --[[User:ShinTakezou|ShinTakezou]] 15:03, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
: That's where we were earlier this week. I might reduce the captcha conditions this weekend if the spam doesn't drop off. At any rate, I'm going to have to mod things a bit to deal with spammers, and it might be possible to drop the CAPTCHAs altogether at that point. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 15:46, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
:: Could the ''captha'' issue be re-addressed (as far as being more friendly to tried-and-true bona fide Rosetta Code contributors)? I have a bunch of updates/fixes to do (more like a ton of "renaming" to clean up orphan files) and at this point, it's just a massive waste of my time trying to fight the captha "who's on first" game. (Could it be changed to rock-paper-scissors-Spock-lizard? --- just kidding.) How about what MathWorld (TM) uses for it's "bug" reports? MathWorld has never failed me yet. If it's good enough for the gander, it's good enough for the goose. It's bad enough just adding links or worse yet, creating a new page, and ''then'' adding a link that you forgot. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 22:40, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
==Done?==
It looks like it's done for now. Did anyone do anything or did they just give up? --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 18:25, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
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I sympathize with spam issues. Unfortunately, for some reason the captcha doesn't like me at all. I'm looking at clear text, no ambiguous letters, and I type it in and get rejected. :-/ [[User:Gcanyon|Gcanyon]] ([[User talk:Gcanyon|talk]]) 22:42, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
:I completely agree with [[User:Gcanyon|Gcanyon]]. The captcha is pretty annoying. I just get illegible text and it doesn't get any better if I try to reload it to get another one. Here are some screenshots (I've added whitespace because otherwise I would need to solve a captcha which I'm just not able to do):
:* http: //www.freeimagehosting.net /newuploads /z6fqb.png
:* http: //www.freeimagehosting.net /newuploads /39e1d.png
:--[[User:AndiPersti|Andreas Perstinger]] ([[User talk:AndiPersti|talk]]) 22:38, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
== New captcha ==
Google announced [http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.de/2014/12/are-you-robot-introducing-no-captcha.html new captcha].
(Seeing fresh batches of "new users" daily, RC would make a good beta-tester :) --[[User:Hajo|Hajo]] ([[User talk:Hajo|talk]]) 18:32, 3 December 2014 (UTC)
==Spam as Task==
We could set as a task the challenge of writing a tool to post spam to RosettaCode. With all of us writing one, we might gain some insights into what's being used against us and perhaps think of new ways of stemming the tide. [[User:Axtens|Axtens]] ([[User talk:Axtens|talk]]) 02:13, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
: Meh... if we do that we should definitely be doing it against a scratch copy of the site. But I doubt the insights would be that useful unless we were actively engaged not against this specific site but against a large collection of sites (and presumably with a misguided political or economic motive, so that the activity would be sustainable). Meanwhile note also that whatever is being used today will not necessarily be used later.
: No, I think that if we want to deal with this, we'll need to design some sort of "apprentice-track" mechanism where people need to invest some effort showing their worth before we let them use the site as a launching point for things directed elsewhere. And we'll also need volunteers to help mentor that intro mechanism. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 02:43, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
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