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jayvan / tempest-watch

Track active tempests in Path of Exile
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ReCaptcha Request #25

Open kjy112 opened 9 years ago

kjy112 commented 9 years ago

In the last couple of hours, there seems to be a large amount of bogus reports on tempest. One recommendation is to use a Captcha for form submission.

jayvan commented 9 years ago

For now I've put in autobanning, and manually banned the IPs involved with the mass auto voting earlier. I'd like to avoid Captchas if I can, but if problems persist that's what I'll do.

kjy112 commented 9 years ago

If the main culprits are spam bots, you could probably use an empty field that gets appended to the form via JavaScript during submission to block form submission VIA server side checking. This can help user experience without using Captcha. However, if culprits are human being (trolls), then Captcha is the way to go at the suffering of actual user's experience. This is simplest way I can think of to avoid Captcha, but all depends on the source of spam.

jayvan commented 9 years ago

Let's evaluate the amount of false votes in the next little while. While captchas prevent spam bots, they also prevent good automated voting such as #26