"Being a native English-speaker does not guarantee that you have language skills good enough to function as a hacker. If your writing is semi-literate, ungrammatical, and riddled with misspellings, many hackers (including myself) will tend to ignore you. While sloppy writing does not invariably mean sloppy thinking, we've generally found the correlation to be strong and we have no use for sloppy thinkers. If you can't yet write competently, learn to."
I still try to read through poor writing, but the comment has to contain something fairly insightful for me to get over a "then/than" mistake. That said I think a Naive Bayes classifier for "sloppy" and "not sloppy" would work better than this captcha system. Not to mention it's super-easy to get around by a bot, and getting rid of bots is the point of a captcha in the first place.
"Being a native English-speaker does not guarantee that you have language skills good enough to function as a hacker. If your writing is semi-literate, ungrammatical, and riddled with misspellings, many hackers (including myself) will tend to ignore you. While sloppy writing does not invariably mean sloppy thinking, we've generally found the correlation to be strong and we have no use for sloppy thinkers. If you can't yet write competently, learn to."
I still try to read through poor writing, but the comment has to contain something fairly insightful for me to get over a "then/than" mistake. That said I think a Naive Bayes classifier for "sloppy" and "not sloppy" would work better than this captcha system. Not to mention it's super-easy to get around by a bot, and getting rid of bots is the point of a captcha in the first place.