On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Steven Walling <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Leslie Carr <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I agree that better tools and non captcha based tech are the way to go. > > > > At a previously very-spammed company, we learned how no matter how > > badly you distort the captchas, it doesn't matter, as if it's human > > readable, humans can pick out the text. Look how cheap it is to get a > > human to do your captchas for the spammers! > > http://decaptchablog.com/decaptcher-services > > > > Technical/social solutions such as helping the community patrol and > > catch spam and automated detection of spammy language are the way to > > go > > > > Leslie > > > > P.S. This is my own personal opinion and not the opinion of the > foundation > > P.P.S. I also vote for any proposal which increases the number of > > kittens I get to view on a daily basis. > > > > What about a honey pot? > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing) > > Steven Tarpits are sooooo much more fun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarpit_(networking) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
