What is Simon's middle name? Is Peyton not part of his surname? Oh crap. I'm a bot.
Sent from my iPad > On Apr 7, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Daniel Trstenjak <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:27:32PM +0700, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote: >> What if we replace captcha with a short, static question, the web form >> equivalent of a secret handshake? And give it enough weighting to override >> akismet? >> >> E.g. >> >> * What is Haskell's middle name? >> * What is SPJ's middle name? > > Yeah, I thought about something similar like: what's the result of 'map (+1) > [1,2]'. > >> The main drawback to this is that it'll only be a matter of time before >> spammers wise up. But that interval might be long enough for something better >> on the horizon, e.g. akismet gets a lot smarter, better blog posts on >> tracspam, >> etc. > > I don't think that the ghc wiki is of particular interest for spammers > or that they gain a lot by understanding Haskell specifics. Most likely > they will never notice it. > > > Greetings, > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
