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Identifying human agents vs. bots
Hildolfur McMillan
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Join date: 5 Apr 2007
Posts: 19
04-10-2007 04:54
I'm searching for a captcha mechanism to identify human users that operate a machine I have built. This machine gives away money via chatting to it (see /54/3b/176171/1.html#post1464424), and it looks like it is possible to build chatbots via libsecondlife.

I am now looking for a "non-sucking" way to identify humans without distracting ordinary users too much.

I decided to put this to an extra thread, as it is a different subject than scripted chat.

What was said so far:

From: someone
I could use common words displayed on a screen every two minutes or so, and only pay out every 5 minutes. No payout if the captchas are not identified correctly. I have no idea yet how to make the user validate the captcha, since chatting would defeat the purpose (if multiple agents use the machine, the chatbot could just listen on the channel to get it).


From: Newgate Ludd

Hmm, make it so they have to touch the machine every few minutes when prompted, preferably touching a colour coded button ?


Any further ideas?
Elanthius Flagstaff
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Join date: 30 Apr 2006
Posts: 1,534
04-10-2007 05:02
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