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:Due to a huge bot attack of malicious edits I have just had to eliminate the ability for unregistered users to perform edits. We have had many very valuable anonymous contributions in the past. Hopefully I will be able to allow anonymous contributions again in a day or two. Meanwhile, please consider becoming a registered user. We really appreciate your help! --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 21:35, 14 August 2011 (CDT) | |||
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:Switched from ReCaptcha to QuestyCaptcha. Some enterprising spammers have apparently either cracked ReCaptcha, or they're using some kind of new OCR or maybe using humans to defeat it. As a result we'd been getting 5 to 7 new pages full of spam a day from newly registered accounts since the middle of February. Other SYSOPS have reported that other Captchas are still working, so I switched over the QuestyCaptcha today in hopes this will stem the tide. Let me know if you encounter any problems or special difficulties. The two questions asked should have very obvious answers to pipe smoking humans that are nominal English speakers. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 20:02, 13 April 2011 (CDT) | :Switched from ReCaptcha to QuestyCaptcha. Some enterprising spammers have apparently either cracked ReCaptcha, or they're using some kind of new OCR or maybe using humans to defeat it. As a result we'd been getting 5 to 7 new pages full of spam a day from newly registered accounts since the middle of February. Other SYSOPS have reported that other Captchas are still working, so I switched over the QuestyCaptcha today in hopes this will stem the tide. Let me know if you encounter any problems or special difficulties. The two questions asked should have very obvious answers to pipe smoking humans that are nominal English speakers. --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 20:02, 13 April 2011 (CDT) | ||