[Radiant] Commentable and Spam

[Sean Cribbs]

Nolan,

I totally understand where you're coming from.  Personally, I'm also not
eager to create something that would potentially cause problems on the
server or require any library that the user may or may not have control over
(i.e. RMagick -- took 4+ weeks to get an update on Textdrive, and it's still
a version behind because of the FreeBSD port taking too long).  This is why
I'm leaning toward something that can be done purely in Ruby and be
relatively lightweight.

Sean Cribbs
seancribbs.com

On 9/6/06, Nolan Darilek <nolan at thewordnerd.info> wrote:
>
>
> On Sep 6, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Sean Cribbs wrote:
>
> > One user, "Nolan", commented that CAPTCHA images are inaccessible (to
> > vision-impaired users) and should not be considered an option.  As an
> > alternative, he suggested the use of spam-filtering services like
> > Akismet.
>
> It isn't that I think it shouldn't be an option, but that it
> shouldn't be the *only* and *default* option, because if it is then
> it gets enabled without users thinking through the implications. And,
> admittedly, the implications aren't major for the average user, but I
> promise you that anyone in my physical proximity when I can't leave a
> comment or join a forum isn't quick to forget them when they've heard
> me curse up a storm because I can't. :) I worry that if CAPTCHA is
> the only and default scheme, or even if it is the first scheme that
> takes hold for any early adopters, that Radiant will become
> exclusionary to those of us who want to comment but can't.
>
> Another option might be to fix the captcha gem to include the textual
> challenge/response discussed below, or maybe to pipe its text/numbers
> to festival. It'd be clunky, but CAPTCHA itself is a rather clunky
> solution IMHO. I'm even pondering writing a web service that accepts
> CAPTCHA images and farms decoding them out to volunteers via RSS, and
> not being particular about whether the one requesting the text is an
> innocent user or a spammer, I'm just *that* annoyed with the tactic
> and its use by companies like Yahoo who, when I last checked, insist
> that VI users provide contact information not requested from sighted
> users. Sorry, I don't want to be contacted by someone for permission
> to join a group or del.icio.us or whatever.
>
> Ahem, sorry, I'm ranting. :) I'm just eager not to see any more web
> developers go down this road.
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