[Wine] Has anyone tracked down Bekkeypelet?

[David Gerard]

On 25/02/2008, nicholas.g.lawrence at mainroads.qld.gov.au
<nicholas.g.lawrence at mainroads.qld.gov.au> wrote:

> The basic problem with CAPTCHA, registration, etc, is that it
> erects a barrier to access. Some users would give up at that
> point and not contribute.


Yeah. The problem is how to make something that isn't a barrier to
normal users. Moderating account registrations and moderating users'
first posts should catch a lot of it.


>  Is there potential for wine forums to co-operate with other
>  forums (eg linux, firefox, openoffice) so that passing one
>  CAPTCHA/registration grants access to a whole group of
>  forums at once?
>  This would increase the incentive for passing the CAPTCHA
>  or registration, and people would be more keen to go
>  to the extra effort.


This is where Akismet is useful - it uses both Bayesian filtering (for
spammy keywords) and a distributed trouble-source database across
thousands of WordPress installations. In my experience on my blog it
gets a few false negatives and almost no false positives. You'll need
to watch it, but it's worth a try!


- d.