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

[Mika A Epstein]

It's not that /that/ particular captcha's broken, they all are :/

Otto, maybe port 
http://darcynorman.net/2009/05/20/stopping-spamblog-registration-in-wordpress-multiuser/ 
over to nginx?

Simon Prosser wrote:
>
> Maybe its time for wp to have its own captcha lib?
>
> On 8 January 2013 01:08, Otto<otto at ottodestruct.com> wrote:
>>
>> I know, but dammit, this is ridiculous.
>>
>> Alternative approach suggestions would be welcome.
>>
>> Sorry for the brevity and typos, sent from my phone.
>> On Jan 7, 2013 6:48 PM, "Mika A Epstein"<ipstenu at ipstenu.org> wrote:
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>>>
>>> This is a sad, sad day :(
>>>
>>> Otto wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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