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ADMIN: Forum hilarity

All,

I'm working on tightening things up to stop the torrential influx of spam. The process needs to be refined a bit.

Thanks for your patience as we continue to address this.

Dave

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  • Thanks for the test!

    URLs are fine. Actual links are not.

    This and the other new checks in place are stop-gap solutions. We're testing an account/login system at the moment. Swapping out the entire forum (with 14+ years of data) is not an option for a short-term solution, so out comes the duct tape.

    On the up side, the CAPTCHA is no longer necessary with the account-based system, so everyone should be happy. Or hpapy as the case may be.

    I appreciate everyone's patience, and understand your frustration with the spam and CAPTCHA. We find it equally annoying. Makes we want to crowd-source spammer identification.

    Dave

    (who is trying to read an indecipherable CAPTCHA)
    (Which is provided by Google.)

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  • Thanks for the test!

    URLs are fine. Actual links are not.

    This and the other new checks in place are stop-gap solutions. We're testing an account/login system at the moment. Swapping out the entire forum (with 14+ years of data) is not an option for a short-term solution, so out comes the duct tape.

    On the up side, the CAPTCHA is no longer necessary with the account-based system, so everyone should be happy. Or hpapy as the case may be.

    I appreciate everyone's patience, and understand your frustration with the spam and CAPTCHA. We find it equally annoying. Makes we want to crowd-source spammer identification.

    Dave

    (who is trying to read an indecipherable CAPTCHA)
    (Which is provided by Google.)

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