Peer Review Captcha [update]

Matt · Last edited by Matt on Tue May 04, 2010 6:36 am; edited 1 time in total

Hi everyone,

We have heard many concerns that bots were being used in Peer Review. Based on our research, we believe that bots were certainly a possibility and had become an issue.

To combat this use of bots, we have recently added a captcha to the process after each vote.

The vote is not counted/processed and promo credits are not paid unless the captcha is properly filled out.

We're going to monitor what happens to the PR queue with captcha happening after every vote. If we find that a change is in order, how many votes do you think ought to trigger a captcha? 3, 5, 10? random?

We hope this safety step resolves the bot issue. Please let us know if you have any questions about this process.

***UPDATE 5/5: Just as an FYI we have increased the threshold of votes each person makes before receiving a captcha. We believe that a number of Peer Review votes were completed by bots, and this change should increase the time it takes a product to go through PR while also stopping bots in their tracks. Of course, we'll continue monitoring the stats and we welcome and appreciate your feedback!

Sikk · Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 11578 Location: USA - AZ

Great news, Matt! Very Happy

Thanks for letting us know.

-makes way for people to complain about CAPTCHA-
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Notorious · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 18427 Location: USA

People will always complain about something.

Matt - I like this.

However, I would really like to see IPR get trash canned and reinstate it for Users to process "flagged items".

Thank you for the "capt-ah-cha-cha-cha".
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I give up. Censorship is ridiculous.

lil · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 8156 Location: Panama

Oh wow, I LOVE the idea.
-Runs off to do a little PR-

Edit: I'm not seeing one when I hit the pass button.
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Gawth · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 411 Location: Australia

Why do I see a backlog coming up soon?

Edit: I'm not seeing it either.
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Notorious · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 18427 Location: USA

Mirajai · Joined: 30 Nov 2009 Posts: 883 Location: USA

lil · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 8156 Location: Panama

Yeah, it's not activated, I guess. Maybe we need to log out and back in to see it? I'll try on the other computer later, then.
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Notorious · Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 18427 Location: USA

Well...I can't even do IPR.

Ever since I upgraded to the new client, I get this when I try to start IMVU....so I have to "run as administrator"...

IPR doesn't give me the opportunity to "run as administrator"

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I give up. Censorship is ridiculous.

KendalGrey · Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 25 Location: USA - CA

I can't say that this is a bad feature in the process to eliminate the Bots, however I can also predict the future and that is we will be back to waiting many hours if not days to get items through PR once again...

I would like to echo Notorious comments regarding a new process where PR simply is a tool that is used to police flagged items which would hopefully keep things moving and actually serve to catch the real offenders out there.

Gawth · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 411 Location: Australia

Ok, it's working for me now...and, lol..Pushkin commander? O_o These captchas are random.
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lil · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 8156 Location: Panama

Gawth · Joined: 19 Mar 2007 Posts: 411 Location: Australia

Anyone submitted lately to tell how much slower stuff is going through PR now that the captchas are online?
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MrsLykan · Joined: 22 May 2007 Posts: 685 Location: USA - GA

lil · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 8156 Location: Panama

I'm afraid to submit anything right now because of that.
I guess I can pull out one of my current items and edit their tags just to see.
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