I got stumped on the delimited string question, but I was
able to get the answer by viewing the page source in my web
browser.
-Eric
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:41:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
I'm sure you all are as tired of the occasional spam that hits
these lists as I was deleting it. (Mailing list users in
particular, I guess, since we can't delete an email once it was
sent out.) Most of the spam was coming in through the forum, so
I suppose I was responsible for [not] keeping it out.
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, which is what the
current spam economy seems to be gravitating towards.
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 non-technical
people with no incentive to learn or research stuff (i.e.
spammers). DCaptcha is already in use on the D wiki
(wiki.dlang.org), with great success - DCaptcha's debut cut the
short-lived explosion in wiki spam to zero.
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
forum with test posts:
http://wiki.dlang.org/extensions/DCaptcha/demo.php
Source code:
https://github.com/CyberShadow/dcaptcha
Pull requests for more challenges are welcome. You can find
some goals for new challenges at the top of dcaptcha.d.
Previous discussion (w.r.t. the D wiki):
http://forum.dlang.org/post/tpflbvlfutjwyvqmo...@forum.dlang.org
