I am in the process of designing a support forum for a software product. The goal is to make it as easy as possible to ask a question. Ideally I'd like to do away with the need to login all together, but it also needs to be Spam resistant.
I've looked a little into the CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) method, better known as the "distorted text method", but questions have been raised about both its accessibility and effectiveness. There is the option of sending an activation email. However, this adds several steps for the user and is not without its own issues (Spam filters etc.) Does anyone have any thoughts on the best method to confirm a user is human? Maybe a third option I haven't thought of? Cheers, Chris Some links on CAPTCHA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha http://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/ ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
