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

[Andrew Farmer]

That moment when spammers start pushing language research forward by
generating functions from natural language specifications.


On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Artyom Kazak <yom at artyom.me> wrote:

> 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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