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Recaptcha required to join a community
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Require users trying to join a community to pass a spambot challenge.
Full description of the ideaThere's been a recent spurt of spammy/malware-linking videos showing up in communities I watch on my friendspage. Most of these spam journals are members of more than a
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On the one hand, more barriers to spambots are good. On the other hand, anywhere there's a CAPTCHA, there's an accessibility problem for vision-impaired users, text browser/screen reader users, hearing-impaired, Deaf, and audio processing disorder users.
Though I wouldn't be horribly opposed to the idea of an optional CAPTCHA and having users failing the CAPTCHA but who still wanted in winding up in the same sort of queue that gets used for moderated membership communities.
I am vaguely amused because I recently found myself making a note: "Banned on account of trying to join [personal writing comm with moderated membership] in possession of a spammer journal" -- and then saw the same journal spamming up another community.
Oh, how I hate spammers.
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Yeah, that's true. I was hoping that the fact that it shows up on account creation made it somewhat more okay, but it's still a difficulty.
Yeah, one of my me-only communities keeps getting join requests from unknown (likely bot) users. You just made me realize I should be reporting them.
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