ReCaptcha
In my ongoing fight against spam I have resorted to using captchas. Now, in one way, captchas generally do there job quite well, they are a big barrier to automated spam systems. However, they also act as a barrier to legitimate users, or just end up being fucking annoying.
The best solution in my opinion (since its the one I’m using xD), is reCaptcha. It uses words from books that failed OCR, so is unreadable by even the most sophisticated OCR tochnology (in theory). But, because it is words, it is inherently very readable by humans. Not only is it accurate and bearable, it is also helping to digitize the books the words are from (presumeably it must decide what the right answer is by taking a consensus).
Sooo, generally nice nice nice. I’m not sure why I haven’t tried it before now. Fingers crossed, and be sure to let me know if it breaks.
So, yeah, a little update from the Freedom Dreamer. There might be more posts coming soon, there might not.