-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 29/03/13 18:29, Benjamin Lees wrote: > Humans regularly get CAPTCHAs wrong, and they often do so multiple > times (if you have any elderly relatives, feel free to see how > many tries it takes them to solve a reCAPTCHA one). Blocking them > from even viewing your site for a day seems a little extreme. > +1 - there is one well-known blog site that uses capture, and I've tried as many as 10 times on a single submission, only to give up because I simply couldn't get the captcha right. Now I don't even try to comment there.
> Is there an actual problem you're trying to solve here? Is there > any indication that spam bots are affecting your site's > performance? If not, worrying about this is probably a waste of > your time. We did have something of a problem on the userbase.kde.org wiki - mostly spam inserted on new user pages, but finally one destructive spam edit. We installed questy captcha for registration. It stops machine/bot registrations but not human ones. It doesn't stop humans adding spam, but believe me, the problem is so light compared with what it was. Anne -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFWwfUACgkQj93fyh4cnBfxNgCfb++C+tW65b5A0F24oUsjtoYP sZwAn2gkvxPJiYWVj2o3jC03GCi4+1VA =AuKJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
