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I don't disagree, but what is your point? That one should never say "X is broken" without inventing a Y that is better than X?
by jdale27 14y ago
I don't disagree, but what is your point? That one should never say "X is broken" without inventing a Y that is better than X?
- streptomycin 14y agoIt's fine to say "X is broken", but I doubt you can find anyone on Hacker News who didn't read an article like this years ago and thus already knows X is broken. This article is beating a dead horse. The fact remains, captchas are the worst technique to prevent bots from filling out a form, except for all the other ones.
- seandougall 14y agoYes, though, to be fair, this particular horse does seem to find a way to get deader as the years go on.
- streptomycin 14y agoWhen a horse dies, it doesn't stay in a constant preserved state forever, it slowly decays :)
- rickdale 14y agoRight now I think the best solution is no captcha. HN doesnt use one for the sign up form. Yes, the HN community is flooded, but for the most part I dont think a captcha would change that.
- asto 14y agoHN is a (largely) community moderated content aggregation site. What if you don't have the benefit of a community to moderate? If you're an email service and want to stop bots from signing up and spamming the world at large, how would you do that?