ReCaptcha Request

[kjy112]

In the last couple of hours, there seems to be a large amount of bogus reports on tempest. One recommendation is to use a Captcha for form submission.

[jayvan]

For now I've put in autobanning, and manually banned the IPs involved with the mass auto voting earlier. I'd like to avoid Captchas if I can, but if problems persist that's what I'll do.

[kjy112]

If the main culprits are spam bots, you could probably use an empty field that gets appended to the form via JavaScript during submission to block form submission VIA server side checking. This can help user experience without using Captcha. However, if culprits are human being (trolls), then Captcha is the way to go at the suffering of actual user's experience. This is simplest way I can think of to avoid Captcha, but all depends on the source of spam.

[jayvan]

Let's evaluate the amount of false votes in the next little while.
While captchas prevent spam bots, they also prevent good automated voting such as #26