Ticket system thinks links to Django tickets are spam and gives rude wording

[anonymous]

When I posted the ticket at https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/17790, I got a response saying that this was probably spam and I needed an obfuscated Captcha to prove that it is not spam. The ticket, as far as I can tell, contains one link to a Django page and nothing even remotely spammy. And the system didn't even have a politely worded "To confirm that you are human, please solve the following Captcha;" it gave accusatory language stating that my post was probably spam.

I would suggest:

1: URL's from a whitelist to include Django's domain not be treated as smelling like spam, and

2: If the Bayesian filter is triggered, have a POLITE way of asking the person to answer captcha.

[Claude Paroz]

Sorry if you felt offended. However, this is a "technical" ticket system, not a tourist desk :-)
I think that it's not such a big effort to fill a Captcha. And we're getting spam nevertheless. I think that unless the issue is blocking people from reporting bugs, efforts are better spent on improving Django itself.

[Aymeric Augustin]

IIUC the spam filter is applied to anonymous submissions (and to all of them, regardless of their content).

Creating an account and logging in is easy, and avoids the problem.