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R. Alex Whitlock
I've removed the registration barrier for comments. With the upgrade to Nucleus 3.20 I've got Comment Control working which is enough for the moment. I'm still wading through about 200 comment spams a day. Until I get tired of that (or if we get Captcha working), you no longer have to register to post comments.
[Updated by Mike]
CAPTCHA is now working!
After fighting with it and hunting down rogue errors due to the CAPTCHA routine's less-than-documented installation procedure (something that RAW thought had to be added to the Skin, but didn't), I finally found it; the CAPTCHA routine requires the GD2 libraries in PHP that aren't turned on by default.
If it can't find GD2, it just sits there, doing nothing. The upside is that turning it on (once I finally knew that it was required) was a very small operation indeed.
Once again for posterity: CAPTCHA is now working!
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oh good, i can go back to spamming anonymously
Captcha is being worked on as we speak, though it's a devil of a time getting the @#$@# thing to work.
It appears that CAPTCHA is now working... GOTCHA!
Ah, this is very nice!
I need to do this same upgrade, but it will have to wait until sometime after the move.
So what did you have to do to get the library working, something in php.ini?
Kevin,
How to do it (on a Windows Server box):
http://www.boutell.com/gd/
Step 1: Make sure your extension_dir property is properly aimed at the directory where the extensions sit.
Step 2: under the Dynamic Extensions area of PHP.ini, uncomment the "extension=php_gd2.dll" line.
Of course, the process is probably 100% different for a Linux setup.
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Comment spam is an ongoing problems that we're trying to address. Previously we required people to create accounts and log in. I am thankful to say that is no longer the case. We're giving Captcha another try and are playing around with a text-based Q&A variant of Captcha. So bear with us as we try to figure out how to best get a handle ont he problem. Please note that any comment on a post more than 30 days old will go into the moderation queue, where I will get to it when I can which could be once a week.
