Hi Philip My question was exactly to ask for further need of spam protection within the OSM tool "landscape". Have you ever managed a Wiki or any CMS with accounts? Unfortunately it's common place to get higher page rank registering fake accounts and putting Weblinks into the users page - like in an OSM Wiki or OSM server. And that's the reason why OSM Wiki has a CAPTCHA (which currently helps Google...). The CAPTCHA I would propose would display geometries - similar to Asirra (which displays cat and dog images). If one reads the scientific and practical literature CAPTCHAs are still state-of-the-art. I accept the argument that image CAPTCHAs are a barrier for disabled. But it's somewhat weird to me in the specific case of a graphics oriented project like OSM.
Yours, Stefan 2013/5/7 Philip Barnes <[email protected]>: > CATPCHAs are pure evil, I would like to see their use made a criminal > offence as I am sure that they contravene the Disability Discrimination > Act. When faced with the things I tend to go somewhere else, they use > such hard to read characters and always take several attempts. > > If reporting an error with OSM required a catpcha then I suspect many > just would not bother and we would all be worse off. > > And as Tom says I do not see any evidence of automated spam in OSM. > > Phil (trigpoint) > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
