I just had to lower the difficulty on the captcha as it seemed to be triggering users based on IP address as spammers even if they were a legitimate user that passed the captcha.
As such we may start seeing an increase in spammers, I hope not, the visual part of the captcha is just as difficult but I believe it just wont block based on suspicious IP addresses anymore. so it may remain effective against spammers.
With that said if anyone notices an increase in spammers let me know and we may wish to discuss going back to approval for new signups (though I will only do that if the mods have a commitment to check it a few times a day which we werent doing before other than myself).
@freemo
Okay. I'm not keeping statistics on the spam, but if it's a perceptible increase I'll bring it up.
@arteteco @Sphinx