On Nov 9, 2014 10:40 AM, "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 November 2014 09:27, aude aude.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:51 AM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'm curious, Risker: if you don't mind my asking, what about being
required
to supply a throwaway email address would have discouraged you from
opening
a Wikimedia account?
I understand that it can be a bit scary to have to provide this
information
(what about a throwaway?), but yet is a tradeoff.
I realise it'd be a pile of extra work, and I'm not sure how to present it clearly - but what about a choice between solving the captcha or supplying a working email address?
- d.
That sounds pretty reasonable. I think it would be pretty user friendly and possibly allow us to collect data on which of the two is more used by spam bots.
--Martijn