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Questions about captchas and other spam detection measures on SE.

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Spam. (Unless the question happens to be, "can someone recommend an AJAX library for ASP.NET")
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"This looks like spam" error message when attempting to ask a non-spam question

Post a shorter question. There are a whole pile of "trigger words" that will block a post based on their use in various spam campaigns. One word won't do it, but a high proportion of words will, as w …
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Hit by the spam detector on Travel.SE

These are enabled and disabled frequently to deal with large waves of incoming spam. I've disabled it for now to allow you to post your answer; it may be re-enabled if needed.
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It's way too easy to spam the site. How can we make it harder without sacrificing usability ...

How can we make it harder to spam the site without making it too much harder for new users to ask questions? Well... You can't, not easily. At least not for the case of getting a single spam post …
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I am not a robot!

Google announced today that they've made reCAPTCHAs considerably easier to read. But only if you're not a robot: As part of this, we’ve recently released an update that creates different classes o …
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