Hey everyone! I wanted to give our regular readers a bit of a head's up about a certain feature I hope to have installed onto the main site that will prevent bots from spamming the forums.This is Asirra, a free CAPTCHA created by Microsoft for just such an instance. It uses a very simple method of bot-stopping action which is also very easy for a human to use! (I KNOW you know that person who asks you to read the blob of swirly mixed numbers & letters CATCHA's)
To bypass the Asirra program as a human user, you must select all of the photos of Cats, and NOT DOGS. Bots just see photo-files, and humans can clearly see which images are kitties and which are puppies. Killing evil bots with baby animals is the wave of the future! Plans for the duckling launcher and turtle cannon are pending, thanks.
Be sure to read more about Asirra here, and if you want you can try it out for yourself!
Have a wonderful weekend, and I can't wait to get Asirra up and running! Oh! Nearly forgot the best part! Asirra uses the photos of animals who need to be adopted, thus raising awareness for the animals who need a home. Maybe our little Rare-Shrine will save at least one pet? Who knows, but that's still pretty awesome. :P
Rock on, everyone!
-Zenek
