Risker wrote:
Putting on my checkuser hat for a moment - yes, please
please look at
finding a different CAPTCHA process - the cross-wiki spamming by bots that
are able to "break" the CAPTCHA is becoming overwhelming. This issue has
been reported separately, and there may be a different fix, but this is a
pretty big deal as a few hundred volunteer hours a month are going into the
despamming effort.
Reported separately where?
CAPTCHAs were designed for "test if you're human," not "test if
you're
spam." It's a wonder they've worked this long. I imagine better anti-spam
tools are needed (which may be a new extension, new AbuseFilter filters,
better user scripts, etc.).
If the situation is as dire as it sounds, it shouldn't be difficult to find
a few resources to throw at the problem. In a discussion like this, examples
of particular problematic behavior (links!) are always most helpful to
developers, I've found. "This is the bad behavior we're seeing and want to
stop. How should we do that?" :-)
MZMcBride