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  1. #1
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    Inquiry about the site and the new CAPTCHA

    So, I probably run into the new CAPTCHA we have on the wiki more than anyone after random edits. It seems to occur more often on large pages than small ones.

    Anyway, my understanding is the site gets an ample number of attacks and that is why it is in place. Just curious about that.

    Is there a way to edit the page that shows up too so that it doesn't say that people might need to turn their antivirus off to stop seeing it? Obviously that is not true, and people will find that shady.
    If we really receive thousands of attacks on the daily could we put that in there as the reason why? It would go a pretty good way in maintaining the attractiveness of the wiki to users, IMO.

    It wouldn't be so bad if it was just a click CAPTCHA, but having to click images after that and getting it wrong because "HOW THE FUCK IS THAT BAD PICTURE OF A MALL RIDE LOOKING THING A TRAIN?" is super annoying.

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    BG's network got attacked twice in the last week by (D)DoS attacks. Of course as the number of attacks increase so does the sensitivity of the blocker.

    These attacks don't seem to cause major instability problems so far but do increase our bandwidth bill by hundreds of dollars each months.

    The captcha whitelisted your IP for the next 8 hours but I increased the expiration to 1 week instead hoping to make things less irritating for everyone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ragns View Post
    BG's network got attacked twice in the last week by (D)DoS attacks. Of course as the number of attacks increase so does the sensitivity of the blocker.

    These attacks don't seem to cause major instability problems so far but do increase our bandwidth bill by hundreds of dollars each months.

    The captcha whitelisted your IP for the next 8 hours but I increased the expiration to 1 week instead hoping to make things less irritating for everyone.
    Thanks a lot. I was getting them back to back to back today.

    Is it okay if I inquire how our bandwidth and the bills are? Has there been an overall increase or decrease over time?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spicyryan View Post
    Thanks a lot. I was getting them back to back to back today.

    Is it okay if I inquire how our bandwidth and the bills are? Has there been an overall increase or decrease over time?
    All of BG together is about 60TB of bandwidth per month. It has been somewhat stable for the last few years except for the occasional XI/XIV patches. Thanks to the BG Forums donations and volume discount we almost always break even otherwise I pay the few extra thousands dollars from my own pockets.

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    And here I thought the 3TB I never use on my linode was a lot...

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    A few extra thousands?
    Sheesh Ragns, now I feel bad.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Modoru View Post
    A few extra thousands?
    Sheesh Ragns, now I feel bad.
    I think the worst year BG ever had was about $2k in the red.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Modoru View Post
    A few extra thousands?
    Sheesh Ragns, now I feel bad.
    Same, wow.

    Thank you Ragns.

    By the way I have adblock disabled for the wiki, and still don't see ads unless I am on mobile. If I do that for any other site it shows the ads so do you know what the deal with that is?

    Is ad revenue of much use either?

    EDIT: Forgot you don't see ads if logged in. Funk reminded me of this.
    Is there a way we could opt in to help out?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Spicyryan View Post
    Same, wow.

    Thank you Ragns.

    By the way I have adblock disabled for the wiki, and still don't see ads unless I am on mobile. If I do that for any other site it shows the ads so do you know what the deal with that is?

    Is ad revenue of much use either?

    EDIT: Forgot you don't see ads if logged in. Funk reminded me of this.
    Is there a way we could opt in to help out?
    Ads only show to lurkers not logged in since they eat most of the bandwidth and contribute nothing to the wiki.

    Also we run the yearly rafflecopter for monies every january-ish.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ragns View Post
    Ads only show to lurkers not logged in since they eat most of the bandwidth and contribute nothing to the wiki.

    Also we run the yearly rafflecopter for monies every january-ish.
    Yes, but having the couple of adds we have here show to me all year round is a win-win in my book.

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    It also seems like the CAPTCHA whitelist is picky

    While I am not running into it anymore, Darvamos ran into it constantly while doing all the job pages yesterday.

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    PM me your guys IP until we find a better workaround.