On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Leslie Carr lcarr@wikimedia.org 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