Hello Florian,
I'm not having the problem any more so I can't give you the exact error.
What I do remember is that I was being "throttled" because I was doing
too many things (I forget the exact word) in a short period of time. It
then suggested waiting a few minutes.
Thanks for offering your help. Hopefully I will have no problems now :-)
- Glen
On 2013-12-02 02:39, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hello,
Klaus-Jürgen kindly forwarded me your e-mail, so I'll reply inline.
Note: Please Cc me on replies, as I do not read this list.
K-J LibreOffice wrote on 2013-12-02 08:07:
I think I know what's happening. I haven't answered a number of the
anti-spam questions correctly, and the time for which I'm blocked is
*really* long.
What's the blocking message? I haven't configured our Captcha so that
it locks users, at least not on purpose, so I'd like to have a look
whether that is really the culprit or some other plugin.
The problem is that we have heavy spam problems, being one of the
largest free software projects. Rather than switching to manual
account approval, we decided to leave the registration open, but that
means we have to take some provisions. Just as with e-mail spam
filtering, they are never 100% perfect, neither in terms of false
positives nor false negatives. :-(
As for the questions I'm getting wrong, here are some (paraphrasing):
What's the 3 letter acronym for this organization? I typed TDF but that
wasn't correct. Perhaps it's expecting lower case?
TDF in upper case is correct.
What's the street abbreviation without number? I typed Kurfürstendamm.
No idea what the abbreviation would be since I'm not German.
Sorry for that glitch - it indeed contained the old address. The new
one has a special character (Umlaut) in it, so I completely removed
that question now.
What's the phone number for TDF? I've tried "609856720" and "30
609856720". My next try will be "+49 30 609856720"
That sounds about right. :-)
Anyway, long story short, I'd say some of these questions either have
unexpected answers or non-obvious ones for English speakers like me.
Furthermore, being locked out for a day or more seems excessive :-).
Sorry for the bad experience you made, that's definitely not what we
intend. I have fixed one of the questions, and if you let me know the
exact error message about locking, I am happy to have a look.
You can also let me know your desired username, then I create the user
manually for you.
Florian
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