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Teh Internets Are Your Trolls Empathetic?
Posted by Grant Brissey on Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 3:08 PM
Swedish international human rights organization Civil Rights Defenders has debuted a new take on CAPTCHA, wherein users must answer human rights questions in a morally rational manner to prove that are not only human, but not an asshole human (or at least an asshole human who knows how to cheat at a very simple game). CRD says:
With over 200 million CAPTCHAs being solved everyday, we hope that by catching a tiny amount of those interactions we can help promote and empower our partners - brave human rights defenders, who often put themselves at great risk through their engagement for other people's rights.
It's not only an attempt to bypass flaws in the phonetic and other loopholes of content-free CAPTCHA systems, which are being scripted by spam jerks, but it forces other kinds of jerks to enter whatever answer this outfit deems acceptable. Personally, I prefer The Stranger's method of ignoring trolls into irrelevance or berating them into pacification, but, you know, to each his own.
h/t: Wired
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Yea but then you actually let one of them author articles :p
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On September 16, 2009, Google acquired reCAPTCHA.[2] reCAPTCHA is currently digitizing the archives of The New York Times and books from Google Books.[3] As of 2009, twenty years of The New York Times had been digitized and the project planned to have completed the remaining years by the end of 2010.[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReCAPTCHA
The reCAPTCHA service supplies subscribing websites with images of words that optical character recognition (OCR) software has been unable to read. The subscribing websites (whose purposes are generally unrelated to the book digitization project) present these images for humans to decipher as CAPTCHA words, as part of their normal validation procedures. They then return the results to the reCAPTCHA service, which sends the results to the digitization projects.
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If nothing else - though there definitely is "else" - I can really only see it making the trolls madder that they have to try to get inside your squishy liberal brain to troll you.
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