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Fight Against Comment Spam

squeaky

1/19/18 08:44 am

We have taken additional action against the comment spam that has been happening including banning certain text from comments as well as limiting the rate anonymous users can comment. Hopefully this will make a big impact and keep you guys from having to put up with this annoying problem.

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• 229922

  1/31/18 05:05 am (UTC)

  The weird thing is, every so often, I'm getting a captcha on anon comments. It's random and there's nothing unusual about the comments - like they don't have links or anything like that in them. So I have no idea wtf is going on with captcha at all.

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  • tessisamess

    1/31/18 04:27 pm (UTC)

    

    Huh... Y'know, a friend and I were talking yesterday about how the loss of captchas on anon commenting could have happened during the IJ blackout. Do you remember when you started noticing they weren't showing up anymore? (Not that I can do anything about it, haha; I'm just really curious now.)

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    • 229922

      2/1/18 06:21 am (UTC)

      It's just kind of weird, isn't it?
      
      Honestly, the first time I noticed - it might have happened before - was soon after I noticed all the anon spam, and I put two and two together. It may have made five, but I feel like it has to be connected. I'm not sure when you mean by the blackout, but if it's the big one of several months ago it was definitely after that. If it's the more recent and shorter one... it might have been then?
      
      Oh I know. I'm curious too. But the connection between captcha not showing up and anon spam seems kind of obvious?

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