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

[Daniel Fenn]

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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