Captcha's are pure evil, I can never work the swines out and usually need to get someone to help, or more usually I just abandon what I was doing :-(
One thing I've seen elsewhere which might be a half-suitable compromise is to only prompt when a url is included, most genuine users won't then be effected, and you can white list certain sites, e.g. osm related ones , to be even less annoying. On May 5, 2013 4:02 PM, "Stefan Keller" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > 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. > > AFAIK OSM Wiki uses the original reCAPTCHA (which helps Google to > translate books or decode house numbers!). OSM help, the forum and the > User's Diaries (including help) currently require a regular account. > > I found e.g. his discussion [1] which seems to be never implemented. > If somebody knows more pls. reply. > > Now, I got an idea of (yet) another re-CAPTCHA which is somehow more > user friendly and builds on keepright data. > > Question: > 1. Do you also think there still is a need for CAPTCHAs? > 2. If yes, do you know of any volunteering OSM related > webapplications, which would be willing to replace (re-)CAPTCHAs with > a service which helps OSM? > > Yours, Stefan > > [1] http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=16021 > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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