On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Tim Starling <[email protected]>wrote:

> On 10/11/13 03:57, Nathan Larson wrote:
> > Also, we have other antispam tools that are way more effective than
> > nofollow at deterring spam.
>
> Like what? AbuseFilter is unusable for small wikis, SpamBlacklist is
> poorly maintained, and FancyCaptcha is comprehensively broken -- we
> have had reports of sites with FancyCaptcha being spammed to death.
> Pretty much any captcha can be broken for $1.39 per 1000. You wouldn't
> need very many impressions per edit for that to be economical.
>

Asirra works pretty well. I've never seen it fail to bring spam down to
almost nil.
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