[OSM-talk] Still need for spam protection and if yes, what about OSM-based CATPCHA?

[Kev js1982]

Captcha's are pure evil, I can never work the swines out and usually need
to get someone to help, or more usually I just abandon what I was doing :-(

One thing I've seen elsewhere which might be a half-suitable compromise is
to only prompt when a url is included, most genuine users won't then be
effected, and you can white list certain sites, e.g. osm related ones , to
be even less annoying.
On May 5, 2013 4:02 PM, "Stefan Keller" <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think, there is still a need to protect e.g. comments and account
> registrations against spam and it seems that CAPTCHAs are still the
> best technology to do this.
>
> AFAIK OSM Wiki uses the original reCAPTCHA (which helps Google to
> translate books or decode house numbers!). OSM help, the forum and the
> User's Diaries (including help) currently require a regular account.
>
> I found e.g. his discussion [1] which seems to be never implemented.
> If somebody knows more pls. reply.
>
> Now, I got an idea of (yet) another re-CAPTCHA which is somehow more
> user friendly and builds on keepright data.
>
> Question:
> 1. Do you also think there still is a need for CAPTCHAs?
> 2. If yes, do you know of any volunteering OSM related
> webapplications, which would be willing to replace (re-)CAPTCHAs with
> a service which helps OSM?
>
> Yours, Stefan
>
> [1] http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=16021
>
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