The argument for registration is to allow repeat reporters and commenters to only have to prove their humanity once.
--Noah On Sep 19, 2006, at 2:12 AM, Christian Boos wrote: > > Noah Kantrowitz wrote: >> I think that despite its huge problems, a CAPTCHA-protected >> registration system may be a viable option (using in conjunction with >> SpamFilter). Either that or relax the filters and conscript an army >> of watchers to delete spam as its submitted. > > Not necessarily CAPTCHA for registration, but what about simple CAPTCH > before POSTing? > A bit annoying, certainly, but I think it could be effective, as > it's in > use in CVSTrac since ages, and I never noticed spam there [1]. > > The interface would look like (e.g. for ticket comments): > > > ---- > Add/Change #xxx (...) > Your email or username: What is 2 + 2 ? > _____________________________ _____ > > Comment (you may use WikiFormatting here): > -------- > | > | > ---- > > > There would be also a hash accompanying the POST, in order to prevent > forged responses. > > > -- Christian > > [1] http://www.cvstrac.org/cvstrac/captcha?nxp=/cvstrac/tktnew > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
