It's never a good idea to use the same questions everyone else does. If
every site uses a different set of questions, spammers have to crack
them one by one. Using a solution somebody posted on the
internet is an invitation for spammers to crack it.


Am 12.09.2014 01:06, schrieb chris tharp:
> 
> ps. -- Just for general info someone has cracked the dynamic 
> questions for ConfirmEdit extension published here:
> 
> http://thingelstad.com/stopping-mediawiki-spam-with-dynamic-questy-captchas/
>
>
> I've used the questions for months and had the joy of zero spam,
> but unfortunately the system has been cracked. I'm throwing it out 
> there in case someone had became like me and stopped checking for 
> spam on a regular basis. It makes for a very, very unhappy day
> when you find on the order of 1000 spam accounts.

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