On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 4:48 PM, Comet styles <cometsty...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Until they fix captcha or allow Global Filters to become truly global, > there will always be a risk of spambots. For someone who deals with > these on a regular basis and has been doing it for years, making the > Captcha system more friendly to users also means making it more > 'friendly' to spam bot masters...the only alternative is to make > captchas more trickier or harder....As i mentioned a few times on IRC, > every 3rd account created on wikimedia is a spambot and thats just > accounts, not taking into account the thousands of spam edits by IP's > daily.. Can you (or someone else) comment on what the common spambots are actually doing? I'm generally wondering about whether there are opportunities to use captcha and/or other tools in different ways or on different behavior patterns that might capture most of the bots but affect far fewer legitimate editors. -Robert Rohde _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
