> > For some more background, when we proposed something like that to Chris > Steipp he was pretty iffy about it, and he's not wrong. At other sites that > don't have a CAPTCHA on signup (like Facebook, Quora, others) they avoid a > spam problem in part because they require an email address and > confirmation. For some irrational reason, even in the era of throwaway > email accounts from web services, not requiring email is some kind of > sacred cow among Wikimedians, even if it would make it an easy choice to > throw away our wretched CAPTCHA.
Because spam bots can't answer email? > If we want to avoid spam bots signing up, there is going to be a hit in > ease of use somewhere. Our network of sites is just too large to avoid > being a target. It's just a matter of testing to see how much we can reduce > that hit, and which method might be less easy. There is really no evidence that the current hit in ease of use has any affect on warding off spam bots. --bawolff _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
