[UCIMC-Tech] Just a FYI, Oncoming Spam

Josh King josh at ucimc.org
Mon Oct 27 13:54:11 CDT 2008


Okay, I've got image reCAPTCHAs on all content submission forms, and 
turned on the spam filters. Hopefully this will help mitigate the problem.

On 10/27/2008 01:26 PM, Josh King wrote:
> I just enabled CAPTCHA admin links, so admins should be able to add
> CAPTCHAs to any form on the site they want, just by clicking a link on
> that form saying "Add CAPTCHA to this form for untrusted users." I added
> one for stories, I'll add them for the other content types and see if I
> can't get the image CAPTCHAs working.
>
> On 10/27/2008 01:21 PM, Mike Lehman wrote:
>> Just a FYI, we seem to have already been targeted by the spammers. This
>> was a somewhat rare occurrence with the old version, so we didn't have
>> captchas on article posting. It looks like we should consider
>> implementing these for articles, as well as comments.
>> Mike Lehman
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