David_Gerard comments on [minor] Separate Upvotes and Downvotes Implimented - Less Wrong

29 Post author: Larks 29 January 2013 10:31AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 29 January 2013 09:16:52PM 3 points [-]

MediaWiki captchas are terrible and literally worse than useless (keep many humans out, fail to keep spambots out). reCaptcha is a little less worse. But if they have something that works for wiki spam, please be sure to post it to mediawiki-l! Thank you :-)

Comment author: ChristianKl 30 January 2013 12:51:22PM 4 points [-]

Protecting one specific Wiki from spam and protecting Wiki's in general from spam are two different problems. Spam security by obscurity works for a single Wiki.