On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Leslie Carr
<lcarr(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I agree that better tools and non captcha based
tech are the way to go.
At a previously very-spammed company, we learned how no matter how
badly you distort the captchas, it doesn't matter, as if it's human
readable, humans can pick out the text. Look how cheap it is to get a
human to do your captchas for the spammers!
http://decaptchablog.com/decaptcher-services
Technical/social solutions such as helping the community patrol and
catch spam and automated detection of spammy language are the way to
go
Leslie
P.S. This is my own personal opinion and not the opinion of the
foundation
P.P.S. I also vote for any proposal which increases the number of
kittens I get to view on a daily basis.