[sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.

[Dale Glass]

On Wednesday 03 October 2007 18:08:37 SL - Farallon Greyskin wrote:
> Well, that sounds pretty good to me!
>
> As long as there is a human in the mix, it at least gives users a
> /chance/ of competing with them for good land deals. Bot owners have to
> sleep some time.
There's a lot of people using SL. While some sleep some others will be 
awake. You will simply give the chance to more people to enter the "land 
bot runner market". 


> I think that as long as it really takes a human to intervene in an
> actual sale that was scoured by a bot that that would go a LONG way to
> making the playing field a lot more "fair" for the normal SL user
> looking to buy land.
Ah, but I don't think it will.

If I wanted to, I could very easily design an interface that's much more 
optimal for buying than you have access to. While you will demand, and get 
an interface designed to make land buying/selling safe, and thus slow, I 
would design one that makes it FAST.

It's easy enough to design an interface where the only action required will 
be typing the captcha and pressing enter, and information on multiple 
parcels will be available at a glance.

Given the limited amount of characters that appear on a captcha, I'm fairly 
sure I could design an interface for answering it that would be about as 
fast on a PDA with a pointer as for a normal resident with a keyboard.

It also comes to mind that it's easy enough to try to do text recognition 
on the captcha and present the result in a way that makes it easy for a 
human to verify whether the guess is correct.
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