As long as one is implementing a CAPTCHA, the "reCAPTCHA" [1] is my
humble suggestion, I have no idea how the haskellwiki is implemented or
how easy this is to implement, but I imagine it couldn't be _that_ hard.
/Joe
[1] http://recaptcha.net/
Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:31:49 +0100 (CET), Henning Thielemann
<[email protected]> wrote:
How long will the Wiki account registration be disabled? Would it be
possible to ask a question, that real Haskellers could easily answer, but
a spambot cannot? E.g. "What's Haskell's surname?"
Indeed. Disabling Wiki account registration indefinitely, and not
replacing it by at least some form of automatic registration, risks
allowing outsiders to think that the HaskellWiki is somehow run by
some "clique," which I'm sure is not the case. Automating the process
removes most of the risk of this misimpression.
Why not ask new users to identify letters in a random bitmapped image
of a string, as is commonly done? Then any new user who still
registers and starts submitting spam can be tracked and moderated.
-- Benjamin L. Russell
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