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

[Otto]

I don't doubt it, but I'm watching the numbers and it's in a form I can
easily alter later and try new approaches.

Sorry for the brevity and typos, sent from my phone.
On Jan 7, 2013 5:59 PM, "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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