2013/5/5 Tom Hughes <[email protected]>: > On 05/05/13 15:56, Stefan Keller wrote: >> I think, there is still a need to protect e.g. comments and account >> registrations against spam and it seems that CAPTCHAs are still the >> best technology to do this. > > Why do you think this? There are many things that I would do before adding a > captcha, partly because I doubt a captcha will help.
Need: As I said - I see that the OSM Wiki uses reCAPTCHA. And I think it would be more open if we would allow comments for diaries from anyone - not only from registered OSM users. CAPTCHA: I'm running a Wiki and I had to lot of spam before I integrated a CAPTCHA. I know of honeypots which are easy to hack. What I do have in mind is a CAPTCHA which helps resolving OSM errors instead of serving Google to translate books. But before I continue realizing it I thought I'd ask first. So, I'm open for better solutions if you know of any. Yours, Stefan 2013/5/5 Tom Hughes <[email protected]>: > On 05/05/13 15:56, Stefan Keller wrote: > >> I think, there is still a need to protect e.g. comments and account >> registrations against spam and it seems that CAPTCHAs are still the >> best technology to do this. > > > Why do you think this? There are many things that I would do before adding a > captcha, partly because I doubt a captcha will help. > > At the moment I see little evidence of any need for anything however as most > diary spam is either caught automatically, or quickly killed manually, at > least in the english diary entries. > > Spam users are harder to quantify, but also less of a problem because in > most cases nobody will ever become aware of their existence. > > >> 1. Do you also think there still is a need for CAPTCHAs? > > > I don't think there has even been a need for them. > > Tom > > -- > Tom Hughes ([email protected]) > http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
