[thelist] junk entry into forms (captcha?)

Mark Groen evolt at markgroen.com
Wed Feb 7 08:35:11 CST 2007


On Wednesday 07 February 2007 06:12, Christian Heilmann wrote:
> > Yes I like your second Option "Are you a Spammer? Yes/No
> > The World is serious enough
>
> I use that, and I still get comment spam. It seems that there are real
> people out there copying and pasting the stuff in. Mechanical Turk?

Yup, very, very low paid human behind that methinks. Jeff A. wrote a post last 
fall about captcha Turing tests that confirms what I have found anecdotal 
elsewhere - add a bit of noise to your captcha and OCR is beat. IMHO, he's 
slightly off on the economic model wherein the humans are paid $5/hour, think 
it's more like USD $5 day but that still is enough to break the bank.
-- 
cheers,

        mark



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