[IxDA Discuss] Verifying a user is human

[Jennifer Berk]

Chris,

I'd suggest you create your own test instead of using a standard
CAPTCHA.  The simplest way to resist spambots is to give them a
question they haven't seen on several thousand other sites - and you
can easily make it accessible for humans if you don't have to worry
about fooling the machines.  Take a look at
http://almaer.com/blog/logic-based-captcha-to-beat-the-blog-spam-bots
for a discussion of some possible questions at the end of the post.

Jennifer Berk

On 11/29/07, Chris Maissan <chris at absolutenorth.com> wrote:
> I am in the process of designing a support forum for a software product. The
> goal is to make it as easy as possible to ask a question. Ideally I'd like
> to do away with the need to login all together, but it also needs to be Spam
> resistant.
> ...
> Does anyone have any thoughts on the best method to confirm a user is human?
> Maybe a third option I haven't thought of?