Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:41:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Enter DCaptcha, a question-answer challenge tailored for D programmers. Its goals are to challenge posters of suspicious-looking content with questions that should be easy to answer to D programmers, and impossible for

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 08:24:46 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:41:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Enter DCaptcha, a question-answer challenge tailored for D programmers. Its goals are to challenge posters of suspicious-looking content with questions

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 08:28:25 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Got it. But we're not going back to reCAPTCHA either. I'm tired of deleting spam by hand. Please suggest some ideas (or better, send pull requests). I got fed up of having spam on an old blog so i implemented a simple

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 07:46:42 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: I could add links to DPaste and the #d IRC channel. Both good ideas. Done. You can see this here: http://forum.dlang.org/reply/qpfcqedcbkipjllnk...@forum.dlang.org (just click Send) If it's that low than I'm not worried

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 08:51:13 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 08:28:25 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Got it. But we're not going back to reCAPTCHA either. I'm tired of deleting spam by hand. Please suggest some ideas (or better, send pull requests).

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce
I think DSource should not be shut down, but instead modernised and open for new D-based projects. We, old D programmers, just love DSource! :)

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Martin Krejcirik via Digitalmars-d-announce
For an idea of what sort of questions DCaptcha asks, you can demo it on the following page, so you don't have to clutter the I think all code fragments should have just one exact answer (like number or single word) a any programmer without specific D knowledge should be able to answer them

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 00:56:12 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: Maybe make the ones on d.learn extremely simple. --- What does the follow program print? void main() { import std.stdio : writeln; writeln(foo); } --- No algorithms, no math. Just extremely basic

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-12-03 14:02, Martin Krejcirik wrote: Asking for D feature names in not good IMHO. I agree. I try the demo at got a question about what this feature is called: auto u = new class M {}; Exactly what is referred to here? The type inference or the anonymous class? The answer is

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 06:39:34 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 23:02:32 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 22:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know. Since Brad is no longer an active D

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 09:00:25 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 07:46:42 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: I could add links to DPaste and the #d IRC channel. Both good ideas. Done. You can see this here:

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Ary Borenszweig via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/2/14, 6:41 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Enter DCaptcha I think this could work with just two or three variants of a question. Always ask what's the return value of the function. 1. int foo() { return 8 % 3; } I don't think non-programmers know what that '%' symbol is, but

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:47:09 +0100 Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On 2014-12-03 14:02, Martin Krejcirik wrote: Asking for D feature names in not good IMHO. I agree. I try the demo at got a question about what this feature is called:

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 + Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: I think DSource should not be shut down, but instead modernised and open for new D-based projects. We, old D programmers, just love DSource! :) the problem with current dsource

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:19:34 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:47:09 +0100 Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On 2014-12-03 14:02, Martin Krejcirik wrote: Asking for D feature names in not good

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:24:05 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 + Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: I think DSource should not be shut down, but instead modernised and open for new D-based

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:42:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:24:05 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 + Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: I think DSource

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:22:31 + Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:19:34 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:47:09 +0100 Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:42:27 + Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:24:05 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 + Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:42:27 + Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:24:05 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 + Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/3/2014 1:32 PM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: thank you. but i mean that dsource.org is still poping up in results and it contains alot of obsolete projects. some projects was forked long time ago and their dsource pages weren't updated, some are just dead. people keep hitting

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 21:26:19 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:22:31 + Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:19:34 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 21:37:33 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:42:27 + Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:24:05 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread ponce via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 21:32:27 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: i think that the whole dsource site must be shut down and replaced with a stub (except planetD) to stop this disease. that site was great, but now it does more harm than good. Alternatively: use

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 13:02:35 UTC, Martin Krejcirik wrote: I think all code fragments should have just one exact answer (like number or single word) a any programmer without specific D knowledge should be able to answer them correctly. Asking for D feature names in not good IMHO.

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 22:48:50 UTC, ponce wrote: On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 21:32:27 UTC, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: i think that the whole dsource site must be shut down and replaced with a stub (except planetD) to stop this disease. that site was great, but

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/3/2014 2:42 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Violence is not the answer. I'll look into adding a warning banner to the site template. Alternatively, replace the pages in dsource with forwarding pages. The page forwarded to can have two links - one to the original page, the other to the

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:26:41 + Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: The existing search result ratings for DSource are because of all the existing links to it, and not so much because of the content on DSource. that's why it should be

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread Kapps via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 23:26:42 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: This will not help: clawling != indexing, and robots.txt only stops crawling. robots.txt will not prevent a site from appearing in Google search results, and it will not help in lowering a site's search popularity. All

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-03 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 23:26:42 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: The existing search result ratings for DSource are because of all the existing links to it, and not so much because of the content on DSource. The site owner has some control using webmaster tools:

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Faux Amis via Digitalmars-d-announce
This has to be a joke! I couldn't answer a single question: What is the name of the D language syntax feature illustrated in the following fragment of D code? string a = x5095 f9 95d723c2; Seems like hex to me What is the name of the D language syntax feature illustrated in the following

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread MattCoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:41:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Although forum.dlang.org has had a spam check and used reCAPTCHA since it was announced, it is only somewhat effective against fully-automated bots - it is powerless against humans paid to post spamverts on forums web-wide,

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 19:42:39 UTC, Ary Borenszweig wrote: On 12/2/14, 6:41 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: Enter DCaptcha I think this could work with just two or three variants of a question. Always ask what's the return value of the function. 1. int foo() { return 8 % 3; } I

Re: Help getting DWT for D2 using phobos

2014-12-03 Thread Olagsfark via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 12:24:36 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: Get the source from here: https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt Read the readme on that page and follow the instructions. The source is contained in sub modules so you need checkout with git (recursively) *not* download

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:02:46 + Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: I had to maintain a technical forum last year that was getting spammed like crazy. I added the question how many bits are in a byte? six. am i failed? signature.asc Description:

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 4/12/2014 8:13 p.m., ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:02:46 + Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: I had to maintain a technical forum last year that was getting spammed like crazy. I added the question how many bits

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-12-03 23:39, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: That's the name of the parent class :) Or interface, if I recall correctly. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:31:47 +1300 Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: On 4/12/2014 8:13 p.m., ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:02:46 + Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com