Terry Reedy schrieb: > "Georg Brandl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Terry Reedy schrieb: > | > How about asking a Python specific question, with answered filled in > rather > | > that multiple choice selected: I would be willing to make up a bunch. > > And I would spend longer than a couple of minutes at 3am to do so. > > | There are two problems with this: > | * The set of questions is limited, > > but unbounded. I would aim for, say, 50 to start > > | and bots can be programmed to know them all. > > by hacking into the site? or by repeated failed attempts?
By requesting a registration form over and over, and recording all questions. A human would then answer them, which is easily done for 50 questions (provided that they are *not* targeted at experienced Python programmers, which shouldn't be done). > Then someone > has to answer the questions correctly to put the correct answers in. A lot > of work for very temporary access (a day?) to one site. Assuming that you don't replace all questions after killing the bot account, he can get the access again very easily. > Then maybe I reword the questions or add new ones, so more programming is > needed. > > | * Even programmers might not immediately know an answer, and I can > | understand them turning away on that occasion (take for example the > "name- > | binding" term). > > I would expect and want review by others, including non-American, > non-native-English speakers to weed out unintended obscurities and > ambiguities. That's necessary in any case. Georg _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
