I think it was a joke. Sent from my HTC
----- Reply message ----- From: "Chris Little" <chris...@crosswire.org> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel@crosswire.org> Subject: [sword-devel] Wiki and spam Date: Tue, Jun 5, 2012 2:14 pm A quick query to Wolfram Alpha answers questions about primes, much faster than I could go through the sequence: http://m.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+the+twenty+first+prime+number I think the original idea of simple Bible-oriented encyclopedic-knowledge questions is likely to be our best bet. Spammers also have the ability to create accounts manually, or to get others to answer captchas. We can't expect perfection. I can't see localization as a valid need. The wiki is in English; our code, docs, & support all require some knowledge of English; and anyone should be able to google for the correct answers within one or two attempts, knowing the answer for a different language. Anyone who finds this too onerous a challenge probably ought not to be editing the wiki. --Chris On Jun 5, 2012, at 11:02 AM, David Haslam <dfh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > And still they keep coming. Five more since your last delete. > > Even Biblical questions with fixed answers must be easily defeated by bots. > > If simple arithmetic was insufficient as a captcha, make it more > complicated. > > Even the question must be unpredictable, or at least have an unpredictable > parameter. > > e.g. What is the nth prime number? > > Where "n" is chosen at random within the range [say] 15 to 25, and not > displayed numerically, but displayed as words, (making adjustments for how > ordinals are written) i.e. > > What is the *twenty-first* prime number? > > Moreover, the list of possible questions must not be inspectable by means of > "view source". > > David > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/Wiki-and-spam-tp4650398p4650404.html > Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
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