https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31747

--- Comment #5 from Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> 
2011-10-19 08:04:24 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #4)
> (and who doesn't display images really)
- Blind users
- People on slow connections who turn off images because it speeds things up
- Likewise people on slow connections who defer to text browsers because they
have less to load

> It could be crafted in a manner that the image becomes unreadable to bots.
> Image could be fragmented to make OCR impossible or very difficult. For
> instance OCR will have great difficulty recognizing a character if the
> character is broken in to two or more images. Or it could be one image per
> character. Also it is possible to add fake/invisible images in the mix that
> machines would pick up but not people.
> 
> The more difficult it is for bots the better for us. I am fully aware there 
> are
> ways around every precaution but that shouldn't mean we should surrender to
> spam bots.
And real users should lose out on a valid bit of usability, the ability to not
have to manually type in an e-mail address and instead click a link to send an
e-mail. Because of spam?
...imho, that's like saying Wikipedia should turn anon editing off because of
vandals.

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