https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29452
--- Comment #1 from Brion Vibber <[email protected]> 2011-06-17 17:59:28 UTC --- Spammers solve captchas either by machine (if the captcha has been broken) or by outsourcing to companies that have poorly-paid humans do it for them. For the spammer, solving captchas is an ongoing cost. A one-time captcha can fail as the sole prevention mechanism; allowing the same spam links to be restored time after time with no cost to the spammer might be sub-ideal. What may be more appropriate is some concept of link trust; links that have been kept around for a long time or have been confirmed as good by other editors shouldn't need to trigger a new captcha every time, while links that didn't stay long in the first place or were marked as suspicious should be more likely to trigger a check. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
