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