I had to refresh twice to get a string I could read and type. Captcha anti spam checks suck.
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I had to refresh twice to get a string I could read and type. Captcha anti spam checks suck.
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12 Comments
dahamsta (28 comments.) on July 20, 2009 at 12:23 pm.
Poor dotey Donncha had to click twice!
Have to disagree with you on the sucking front anyway, Recaptcha has been a godsend on the sites I run. You get occasional issues like the above, but that’s the nature of Recaptcha. If you haven’t already, read how it works to see why that happens.
adam
Donncha (1707 comments.) on July 20, 2009 at 12:38 pm.
*sob* I’ll give out if I like to!
Yeah, I know what they’re up to and it’s laudable, but I still think they suck! What really irks me is when I have to refresh a CAPTCHA and I lose whatever data I had entered. That’s a UI design issue of course but it was caused by having a hard to guess string to type.
dahamsta (28 comments.) on July 20, 2009 at 12:50 pm.
That shouldn’t happen if you click the reload icon on the recaptcha Donncha, above the audio icon. All that should be reloaded is the recaptcha.
Donncha (1707 comments.) on July 20, 2009 at 12:52 pm.
I know, but not all captchas are as smart. I’m just making a point and ranting don’t you know?
dahamsta (28 comments.) on July 21, 2009 at 10:44 am.
You were never like that before you started drinking Donncha.
Miroslav Glavic (2 comments.) on July 20, 2009 at 9:05 pm.
Any form of Captcha is bad for people who have many kind of disabilities.
Hamming (1 comments.) on July 21, 2009 at 7:54 am.
I have more and more hard time reading CAPTCHA these days. It seems like I’m gonna become a robot or something. Or robots are able to read like humans.
mwaterous (9 comments.) on July 21, 2009 at 10:45 am.
Have you ever tried the ‘listen to this captcha’ option they have? Now those are truly entertaining. I’ve run into problems with these before, and losing data entered is frustrating at best, but if you ever want to be cheered up, hit the listen button.
The last one I listened to sounded something like a mix between a fairy tale witch, a cat that got stepped on, and a small firecracker.
Donncha (1707 comments.) on July 21, 2009 at 5:13 pm.
I promise I didn’t know this post would appear on the Akismet blog.
MJ Ray (3 comments.) on July 22, 2009 at 11:48 am.
The “re” in “reCAPTCHA” means “remove”! It is discriminatory and insulting to users who have even minor visual impairments. Yes, insulting. The text shown to javascript-blocked clients includes the phrase “We need to make sure you are a human”… so anyone who can’t read distorted text or hear garbled letters is inhuman??? Thanks CMU!
By the way, why doesn’t the text after the comment box mention the cookie requirement? I remember it because I’m a long-time visitor, but it’s not mentioned there…
Donncha (1707 comments.) on July 22, 2009 at 12:40 pm.
I changed themes, forgot to add the text back in…
Will (11 comments.) on July 30, 2009 at 4:28 pm.
At least with reCaptcha you are doing some good for a worthy cause! reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA.