Timeline for Human verification test for answering a question (or: how on earth does Stack Exchange calculate spam risk?)
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| Sep 28, 2022 at 22:41 | history | edited | Quasímodo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 28, 2022 at 14:11 | answer | added | Shadow Wizard | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 28, 2022 at 11:22 | comment | added | This_is_NOT_a_forum | There is also Answers entirely copied though properly attributed - e.g., "...simply tacking a "Reference" link at...a wall of unquoted text...does not count as proper attribution" and "we expect answers on Stack Overflow to be original contributions by and large; copying entire texts wholesale is incredibly frowned upon" (my emphasis). | |
| Sep 28, 2022 at 5:34 | comment | added | Meta Andrew T. | @Quasímodo I also used to hit this all the time when writing an answer and then leaving it for a day, possibly until the WebSocket's heartbeat dies, and then getting Captcha on posting it, possibly due to the system seeing it as an instant post without delay. | |
| Sep 28, 2022 at 2:54 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek Mod | @Quasímodo I used to hit this all the time cause I'd type out a post, and spend time thinking about it, so I can second that what Cat asked about was serious and it happened to me all the time. | |
| Sep 27, 2022 at 22:03 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @Luuklag I guess? That makes sense maybe on free teams but not on the ones I run into it on - the business level teams that are paid for by the seat. :D | |
| Sep 27, 2022 at 22:00 | comment | added | Luuklag | @Catija because there is human interferences into who signs up for a Team perhaps? | |
| Sep 27, 2022 at 21:50 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | @Luuklag Ah! So it's only 40 minutes on public... I think they changed it to a day on Teams, which is what I'm thinking about... because I never could understand why we have captchas on Teams at all... :/ But if that answer took less than 5 seconds to write, it looks like it might have hit the too quick side of things. :) | |
| Sep 27, 2022 at 21:42 | comment | added | Luuklag | @Catija there is a general list being CW maintained here: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1343/… | |
| Sep 27, 2022 at 21:37 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | Oh, yeah, totally serious. I draft things one day and then post them the next all the time... and I have to do captchas. HAHAHA. Now that I think harder, I'm not sure whether that's for answers, too... or just questions... but it's definitely a thing we have. I understand your argument... I'm not sure what all the captcha rules are. | |
| Sep 27, 2022 at 21:14 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | The length of an answer doesn't necessarily indicate how long it took to post it. Then it looks like the system was concerned that your question was spam because it's more link than content... And high-rep users should generally know that linking to third-parties without including the bulk of the answer in the post itself is not a great answer - so it's possible that a longer answer wouldn't have caused the system to wonder what's up. | |
| Sep 27, 2022 at 21:08 | comment | added | Catija StaffMod | Question - did you take a really long time to finish writing an answer? Like... more than a day? Because that's one of the specific times we do force a captcha. :) | |
| Sep 27, 2022 at 21:07 | history | asked | Quasímodo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |