[Pdweb] Re: pure-data wiki -- permissions and spam

Frank Barknecht fbar at footils.org
Tue Sep 5 12:57:53 CEST 2006


Hallo,
IOhannes m zmoelnig hat gesagt: // IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> the not-so-good thing with your approach is (imho), that the checkbox 
> always has to default to the "wrong" answer, which makes it simple to 
> guess the "right" answer.

Actually the answer is selected with a different random process as
well. So sometimes the right answer is active, sometimes the wrong one
is. Simply trying to always change to the inactive answer will only be
successful about half of the time.

> having 2 checkboxes, where _at least_ one has checked the wrong answer 
> would make it more foolproof - 

That's true.

> at the cost of a real annoyance when using the system :-(

It still wouldn't be as annoying as Captchas, IMO.

Ciao
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