On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Dimi Paun dimi@lattica.com wrote:
Should we also add another hurdle (possibly even manual approval) to make it harder for spammers to get accounts?
Now that this issue is fixed, we can look again at the spam problem. It was suggested that we use a 'TextChas' for non logged in users: http://moinmo.in/HelpOnSpam
But it seems it's not too easy to come up with decent questions. Should we try it?
I like the idea. It is hard, but here are some possible questions:
"What is the first name of the Finn who created the Linux operating system?" "What is the abbreviation for the GNU C Compiler?" "What is the name of the simple text editor that comes with Windows?" "Complete the phrase: ____ screen of death" "What is the name for a billion bytes?"
I have no idea if those will faze spammers. - Dan