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Note to anonymous commenters: Extra step to post

By adamg on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 8:45am

When you post a reply to a post or comment, you'll now have to type in letters you see in a "captcha" box, at the bottom of the posting form. This is actually something you used to be required to do up until a few months ago, when I upgraded the software and it managed to turn that off and I didn't realize it, despite the increase in spam that started showing up in the message approval queue. You should only have to fill out this mini-form once per session (i.e., if you post a reply, then click to another discussion and post, you shouldn't see it again). Registered users never have to fill out the box.

Anybody who runs into problems with this, please let me know.

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By anon on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 12:26pm.

I made a second request on Friday under a second email address. If you have a registration queue, I'd appreciate it if you could check for any unapproved requests.

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By adamg on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 12:51pm.

Can you e-mail me with the user name you signed up for? I'll approve it.

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By anon on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 1:54pm.

I'm not seeing the captcha image.

I have to view the web page's HTML source to get the image link and view it that way.

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By adamg on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 1:57pm.

What browser and OS are you using?

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By anon on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 3:37pm.

Firefox 3.6 on Windows.

I didn't have this problem when captchas were required in the past.

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By anon on Mon, 10/24/2011 - 4:25pm.

Also, I have to do another captcha each time -- it doesn't remember that I did one already this session.

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By anon on Tue, 10/25/2011 - 2:54pm.

It's worse today. My workaround of viewing the page source to get the link for the captcha image no longer works, since after I type in the code and click "save", it says:

* CAPTCHA session reuse attack detected.
* The answer you entered for the CAPTCHA was not correct.

(I'm posting this using Internet Explorer rather than Firefox -- ughhhh.)

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By adamg on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 7:54am.

Let me know if it works for you now (added bonus if it does: It has an audio "challenge," so that visually impaired users can comment).

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By anon on Wed, 10/26/2011 - 2:28pm.

Thanks -- this captcha works. (But I still have to redo it every post, instead of once per session.)

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