Given that there are algorithms that can solve our captcha presumably they are mostly preventing the lazy and those that don't have enough knowledge to use those algorithims. I would guess that text on an image without any blurring or manipulation would be just as hard for those sorts of people to break. (Obviously that's a rather large guess). As a compromise maybe we should have straight text in image captchas.
-bawolff On 2013-01-21 7:40 PM, "Anthony" <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:00 AM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I mean, you could redefine "something that doesn't block all spambots > > but does hamper a significant proportion of humans" as "successful", > > but it would be a redefinition. > > It's not a definition, it's a judgment. > > And whether or not it's a correct judgment depends on how many > spambots are blocked, and how many productive individuals are > "hampered", among other things. > > After all, reverting spam hampers people too. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
