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Jonathan Aquilina eagles051387 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 05:50:06 UTC 2016


There is also google's recaptcha which seems to be image based matching
now.
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Jonathan Aquilina

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Tom Davies <tomcecf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi :)
> +1
> There's the old-school;
> http://www.captcha.net/
> (which is allegedly easy for spam-bots to beat but somehow does still
> seem to be in common usage)
> and the newer;
> https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html
>
> Obviously to be done when people first try to create an account but
> also also if they return after a long absence, such as 6months - 1
> year.  Also maybe every 10th or 20th login or something like that?
> Personally i wouldn't find it tiresome to do it every time but maybe
> people who are more active might?
>
> Like Peter i am wondering what i am missing because it's a bit of an
> obvious answer.
>
> Of the options listed byt Lyz i liked 1, didn't understand what 2 was
> trying to describe and not sure about the feasibility of 3.
>
> To communicate with users perhaps a single one-liner in the footer on
> all or most pages?  Something like "You can easily join ... to edit
> this page - anything from fixing a typo to a full revamp" ?
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> On 13 January 2016 at 22:21, Alberto Salvia Novella
> <es20490446e at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Peter Matulis:
> >>
> >> Just include a captcha on Launchpad's new user page.
> >
> >
> > Looks good enough to me.
> >
> >
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