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tszyn
on June 12, 2019
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You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA
For my small wiki, refusing all submissions with external links eliminated virtually all spam. Yes, it's drastic, but in my case external links were not essential. I still use ReCaptcha to cut down on spam account signups.
Blackthorn
on June 12, 2019
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We do that as well, outside of a small whitelist of allowed external links. Turns out it's not enough and we still need recaptcha for a few reasons.
We have a small set of anonymous edits every day, which go through recaptcha to be allowed.
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