That was not the end of the problem I was referring to. We know our
specific captcha is broken at turning away machines. As far as I am aware
we do not know how many humans are being turned away by the difficulty of
it. It's a safe bet that it is non-zero given the manual account requests
we get, but given that we have people to do those kinds of experiments it
would make sense to get a number from them before making any drastic
decisions based on a reasonable gut feeling. I don't think anybody claims
to have a perfect solution to the spam vs usability balancing act, so it's
possible we'll try (and measure) a few approaches.
Luke
On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Luke, sorry for reiterating, but «brainstorm solutions
to a "problem"
before we measure the extent of the problem» is wrong: it's already been
measured by others, see the other posts...
Nemo
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