#12947: Trac won't accept new registrations (classifies as spam)
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Reporter: humdinger | Owner: haiku-web
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: Website/Trac | Version:
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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More and more people on IRC mention that they are unable to register at
Trac, because they are rejected as possible spam. This is very bad, as it
deterres bug reports and patches and ultimately possibly new developers.
I have no idea what's the problem, let alone the solution. I'll post a
short discussion by PulkoMandy and Barrett, with Adrien's take on it:
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[18:23] <Barrett> <gbl08ma> Barrett: I tried registering with two email
addresses, first a Gmail one and after that didn't work, a @tny.im one
(personal domain)
[18:23] <Barrett> <gbl08ma> both times I got an error message "Submission
rejected as potential spam" because of failed captcha attempts and high
spambayes probability
[18:34] <PulkoMandy> Barrett: not much can be done, users can be added
manually but that won't fix things long-term
[18:35] <PulkoMandy> basically the "register" page submit feeds an empty
string to the spam filter logic no matter what
[18:35] <PulkoMandy> and people keep marking things as "spam" for our
bayesian filter in trac administration, so now everything empty is "spam"
[18:35] <PulkoMandy> and it's not possible to register anymore
[18:36] <PulkoMandy> the captcha would save it, but I think it's broken
[18:37] <Barrett> in past I suggested to use reCaptcha, but forgot how it
ended BTW
[18:39] <PulkoMandy> that's what we use
[18:40] <PulkoMandy> possibly our API key is broken however, no idea how
to test that
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/12947>
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