I actually don't live that far from the hellmouth, aka Sunnydale high.

6.4 miles

The zip for the Sunnydale hellmouth is 90501 (same zip as my mother in law - coincidence? I think not!)

We're getting a jackload of nonsense registrations. Not sure what the point of the dastardly scheme is, but it's at the very least annoying.

I know image captchas have been brought up before--I may just be oversensitive, but I suck at them, and don't like them as a barrier to entry. Someone suggested here something where an option that was invisible to the user, but visible to the automated agent was used to discriminate between the two, but I can't remember which.

Hell, one might be able to get away with a coyly asked question along the lines of "Are you human, Y/N, humans only, nudge nudge wink wink" to sift the wheat from the chaff.

What's out there? What are people doing to stem the flow of CRAP?

Per your request, DX, I'll nuke the filk email account, and I'll report back with the spam filter options that come with our version of Plesk.

And *that* took a metric buttload of time to post. Tom? What are your opinions of our server's health? Is it worth worrying about that much given an upcoming seemingly agreed-upon upgrade to the next version of Plesk?

Site being suuuuuuuper slow this afternoon for anyone else?

Yeah, I've had some issues.

I think it may be because of admin cleanup--DX, are you cleaning out the filk mailbox?

It's possible that me just going to see how much email was in the filk mailbox slowed us down that much. How incredibly painful.

I don't mind captcha as long as it's decipherable. I recently gave up on registering for something because after the third try I still couldn't figure out what the captcha was supposed to be.

Kitten captcha, maybe? Of course I'm already registered so it won't affect me one way or the other.