{"id":88,"date":"2006-01-27T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T09:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/this_weblog\/turing_test_update.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"turing_test_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2006\/01\/27\/turing_test_update","title":{"rendered":"Turing Test Update: Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> I recently blogged about <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/this_weblog\/humans_fall_turing_test.html\">humans failing my blog&#8217;s comment &#8220;Turing Test.&#8221;<\/a> My blog had a box below the real comments box, prefaced with a statement to the effect that you shouldn&#8217;t enter anything in that box if you were a human (yet some humans did enter comments in that box, thus shunting their comments to a spam file). In response, several commenters noted that my layout was confusing and offered suggestions for improvements. <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve taken their advice and wrapped the &#8220;spam&#8221; comment box in a style tag that will make the box invisible if your browser renders CSS. I had this perhaps irrational fear that the spammers were smart enough to read the CSS, but as it turns out, they aren&#8217;t. The box is now invisible to most users, but I continue to get as many as several dozen spammers filling in the invisible box. <\/p>\n<p> The main shortcoming I can see with the current system is that people who use text-only browsers like <a href='http:\/\/w3m.sourceforge.net\/' title='W3M Homepage'>w3m<\/a> or cell phones, or people with visual disabilities who use an audio screen reader may still be confused. Still, I think this is much less intrusive, annoying, and non-accessible than, say, a hard-to-read <a href='http:\/\/www.captcha.net\/' title='The CAPTCHA Project'>captcha<\/a> that won&#8217;t work at all for those people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently blogged about humans failing my blog&#8217;s comment &#8220;Turing Test.&#8221; My blog had a box below the real comments box, prefaced with a statement to the effect that you shouldn&#8217;t enter anything in that box if you were a human (yet some humans did enter comments in that box, thus shunting their comments to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}