Peanut Gallery Commentary on the Staff Log of Bannings and such like.

[Jackalope]

Obviously. Today was definetely shitfest day. I didn't know that bots are already able to read out captcha.

Historically, bots farm those tasks out to humans who are tasked with solving CAPTCHAs. Low-cost labor, yay!

We are considering options. The issue here is that making it more difficult for spambots to post is also necessarily going to impact new users.

I am of the mind that we don't want to do that unless and until spammers have made it necessary to do so. I think that we have passed that point. However, this site belongs to Tiberius, and I am not going to make a change of that nature without his approval. To that end, I've asked him to weigh in on the issue.