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" wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:00 AM, David Gerard dgerard@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.
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