Comments on: reCAPTCHA = altruism http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/06/03/recaptcha-altruism/ We live as if the world were as it should be, to show it what it can be. Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kevin Makice http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/06/03/recaptcha-altruism/comment-page-1/#comment-32183 Kevin Makice Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:29:10 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=981#comment-32183 More on this subject can be found <a href="http://www.physorg.com/news111664396.html" target="_new" rel="nofollow">here</a>. More on this subject can be found here.

]]> By: Amy Makice http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/06/03/recaptcha-altruism/comment-page-1/#comment-31103 Amy Makice Sun, 03 Jun 2007 15:38:13 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=981#comment-31103 There are several blogs that I check regularly, but on which I never comment because there are too many hoops. I prefer our aksimet. There are several blogs that I check regularly, but on which I never comment because there are too many hoops. I prefer our aksimet.

]]> By: Kevin Makice http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/06/03/recaptcha-altruism/comment-page-1/#comment-31100 Kevin Makice Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:57:19 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=981#comment-31100 Thanks for the update and sharing the link. Without knowing what is in the Akismet black box, I suspect that many false positives with spam comments are the result of blog authors marking legit comments they don't want as spam instead of deleting. I think your solution seems reasonable to correct those kinds of mistakes, and further assume that method has been anticipated enough to keep spammers from effectively doing the same. Thanks for the update and sharing the link.

Without knowing what is in the Akismet black box, I suspect that many false positives with spam comments are the result of blog authors marking legit comments they don’t want as spam instead of deleting. I think your solution seems reasonable to correct those kinds of mistakes, and further assume that method has been anticipated enough to keep spammers from effectively doing the same.

]]> By: David Dalka http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/06/03/recaptcha-altruism/comment-page-1/#comment-31099 David Dalka Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:34:30 +0000 http://www.blogschmog.net/blog/?p=981#comment-31099 God I hate CPATCHA's! There's actually a crafty fix to that Akismet problem! http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/04/22/fixing-akismet-comment-false-positives/ God I hate CPATCHA’s!

There’s actually a crafty fix to that Akismet problem!

http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/04/22/fixing-akismet-comment-false-positives/

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