Author Topic: Playing Whack-A-Mole with Spammers  (Read 21143 times)

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Re: Playing Whack-A-Mole with Spammers
« Reply #30: September 30, 2011, 01:31:57 AM »
I think that one option is to only use a captcha if the edit includes external links. I agree that random captchas or on every edit would only piss off the regular users.

I do like the idea of the question about the game created by us, rather than random words or math problems. You could create something blindingly obvious to all BattleMaster players that a non-player would not really be able to answer.

Yes the one I linked to can target only posts that contain external links. If Tom wants some other options, I could certainly look at updating the existing extension to suit. It also allows for the Captcha to be a series of questions set by the wiki admin, so none of those dreadful images that make me think my eye sight must be deteriorating
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