On the topological question of female or male, that too has little significance other than the statistical. But why would you want to dilute your own statistical advantage? You might want to consult Ms. Jody on that first.

Grounded, yes, grounding is always good. Wish I could find a way to ground those sparking assholes in DC. But I digress. The important thing is that you know what a plug-in is, and it’s not an air freshener. Thus armed, you may scout out the territory at your earliest pleasure.

The cost is higher to use human labor, which begs the question of what possible payoff would justify paying someone even a nickel to solve a Zone captcha. Best I can come up with is that the process is on autopilot and relies on carpet-bombing instead of precision targeting to pay off. We are, in essence, collateral damage in a statistical war.

After all, everyone knows females are more grounded.

Not that I have a better answer. It seems that between the Scylla of the desire to allow easy access to the Zone, and the Charybdis of wanting to preserve our privacy and keep third party fingers out of our pie, human trash collectors are the optimal solution.

Easy for me to say, when it’s been you and podrock and few others doing the collecting. Thank you for that. Perhaps the answer is to spread the burden out to everyone. Let’s look at rating systems, especially those that include a “spam!” button.

I’d welcome your help if you want to research plugins. I don’t think you’ll fall off a cliff if you stay focused on your search, and don’t go haring off on tangents. I need to evaluate and test any plugins, but it’s a huge help to me to have somebody winnow the candidates down to a manageable few.

Some basic criteria if you do accept this mission, Ms. Phelps: Plugins must be compatible with WP 3.0 or later; and…I can’t think of more than that one. “Criterion”, then.

Good luck!