Trac seems to think I'm a spambot...?

Artyom Kazak yom at artyom.me
Tue Apr 8 18:08:13 UTC 2014


Look what I've found: http://codecha.org/ . It might be an easy solution 
to the Haskell-specific CAPTCHA problem.

On 04/07/2014 06:53 PM, Daniel Trstenjak wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 09:27:32PM +0700, Kim-Ee Yeoh wrote:
>> What if we replace captcha with a short, static question, the web form
>> equivalent of a secret handshake? And give it enough weighting to override
>> akismet?
>>
>> E.g.
>>
>> * What is Haskell's middle name?
>> * What is SPJ's middle name?
>
> Yeah, I thought about something similar like: what's the result of 'map (+1) [1,2]'.
>
>> The main drawback to this is that it'll only be a matter of time before
>> spammers wise up. But that interval might be long enough for something better
>> on the horizon, e.g. akismet gets a lot smarter, better blog posts on tracspam,
>> etc.
>
> I don't think that the ghc wiki is of particular interest for spammers
> or that they gain a lot by understanding Haskell specifics. Most likely
> they will never notice it.
>
>
> Greetings,
> Daniel
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