On 08/01/13 11:35, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
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 ).
It's not that it's painful, it's that I don't want various organizations
to know my phone number.
In general, as far as we know captchas are currently
not stopping
spammers at all, while effectively stopping many legitimate (less
Care to elaborate? Do we know how are spammers avoiding captchas (by
software or by humans)? How come other websites don't have this problem?