Nikola Smolenski, 08/01/2013 10:30:
On 05/01/13 04:47, Tim Starling wrote:
For example, requiring phone number verification for new users from
developed countries would be less damaging.
I don't see how is this supposed to help (and I don't think most new
users would want to do this; I certainly wouldn't).
Not to say that it would be a good idea, but Google does it already and
phone verification is probably less painful than our CAPTCHAs are to
non-English users (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5309 ).
In general, as far as we know captchas are currently not stopping
spammers at all, while effectively stopping many legitimate (less
motivated and experienced) users.
Nemo
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