Web Site Trashed (Again)

Frank Shearar Frank.Shearar at rnid.org.uk
Wed Dec 8 17:23:09 UTC 2004


John Pierce <john.raymond.pierce at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Do we think these are bots that are trashing the wiki?  If so could we
> introduce an image-recognition verification step to the wiki editing
> so that only human authors could submit edits?

I think it's bots, myself.

The big problem with "captcha" tech is that it destroys the accessibility of a website. All of a sudden vision-impaired people are indistinguishable from bots!

frank


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