(SOLVED - well, explained) Captcha code

Somebody just fed him, probably.

ClaudeCrow wrote: That's odd when I forgot to input the captcha it just came up with a message at the top of the page telling me to enter it, post left intact. Perhaps HAL was in a good mood on that occasion..

HAL and the recaptcha on posts are actually 2 separate entities. The recaptcha just enables the post to be submitted, but HAL could look at it straight after and consider it to be a spam post. He's supposed to learn over time, so he should settle down after a while and have a better understanding of what is and isn't spam... or he will kill us all, I forget which setting I activated (why do they always add a kill mode? Odd).

Well I tried reposting it and even changing some of the post around to see if that'd allow me to post it but it didn't work. It just keeps saying it was considered as spam. I'm trying to post in the resources section if that helps at all

Maybe it's because the post is huge ha xD

hmm Banj's gonna have to teach me how to find captured posts because I have no idea where they go...

Forrestimel wrote: Maybe it's because the post is huge ha xD

That's a possibility. I'm not sure, but let us know if you keep having problems with posting. Maybe try breaking it up into smaller posts, and leave a few seconds between posts.

Yeah me too!

Got them, they are pretty big and that does seem like the reason they weren't allowed. I'll restore one and see.

EDIT - I've restored it, and run HAL's little training cycle to scan the site and educate himself. I would say it's most likely they were seen as spam because it was a fairly long post containing mostly external links. In future to be on the safe side I'd do what I said above and post smaller chunks spaced apart time wise.

Thanks Banj