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by Reziac on Tue May 15, 2007 at 10:32:48 AM PDT

As one person pointed out, the challenge is probably not needed for logged-in posters. If you don't feel that it can be dropped entirely for the logged-in types, you might implement a "known-good user" list for regulars. This might be automated by parsing for interactive posting patterns, or something like.

As to the new text-challenge, I far prefer this to the evil image-captcha. Text is far more friendly to the blind, AND to folk who don't load images (due to a slow connection or by preference). The only problem I can see is that it really presumes one is a native English speaker with a pretty fair vocabulary. Still, this is better than presuming one has both perfect vision and good visual-noise-parsing skills, as is the case with the image-captchas.

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~REZ~
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