[wp-forums] Support forum registration now has a re-captcha on it

[Simon Prosser]

slows em down tho

On 7 January 2013 23:59, Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Otto,
>
> I don't want to upset you on this but I head that every CAPTCHA has been
> broken and the only one that will do the job well is one of those Q&A type
> CAPTCHA.
>
> (Source phpbb offical forums)
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Otto <otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>
>> In an effort to combat the rising tide of spam made by fake user
>> accounts, I've added a ReCAPTCHA to the /support forum registration
>> page. This should at least slow it down for a while, and perhaps
>> reduce the number of false user registrations we've been seeing (500+
>> per hour).
>>
>> I'll be monitoring it for problems. Let me know if you spot any issues.
>>
>> -Otto
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