"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
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> somebody wrote:
> > Now *that* looks like one smart project.
>
> Yes, except I saw someone half-seriously suggesting that when they run
> across a recaptcha, they pick one of the words and use "penis".

I think a 50-50 chance of having to re-enter the captcha is enough to deter
but the most dedicted saboteur.

> That way,
> you have a 50-50 chance of actually getting that word into their database,
> and if enough people are doing it, you'll have to word showing up at
random
> all thru the textbooks.

If their cross verification system works half decent, that's not going to be
a major issue.

To be effective, random words would have to be from a very small domain and
extremely well publicized. But that also makes it so much easier for the
site to redlist.

> Seems to me the very need for captcha implies that there are significant
> numbers of jerks out there who will screw with you just to be annoying.


Fortunately, people are not simply jerks; they are selfish jerks. That makes
it so much easier to predict their behaviour and engineer around them.

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