On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.comwrote:
Hoi Steven,
When the facts show that having the CAPTCHA is a demonstrable BAD idea. It should be easy to prevent CAPTCHA from being implemented again.
To be precise, the facts do not show that. They show the CAPTCHA is responsible for significantly fewer good-faith contributions from casual editors. That is is or is not a "bad idea", however, is a subjective judgment, based on one's weighing of multiple factors.
Evidently, large parts of the PTWP community remain convinced that the downsides of not having the CAPTCHA (easier vandalism? admin workload? -- I'm not really following that debate) outweigh the upsides. You (and I) may well disagree, but let's recognize that this depends on our _judgment_ of priorities.
Whether or not an editing community's mandate for self-governance should extend to the right to make such a fundamentally anti-wiki measure as the emergency CAPTCHA feature a permanent one is debatable, of course.
Asaf