Capatcha

[Jordi]

onecusta nr&st

I just had to type that to post this thread. I'm sure many of you reading this had to type some similar gibberish to reply to another thread earlier today. Now, I have nothing against spam-protection, but isn't it a little odd that people who have high post counts and have been registered for months, even years, get a spambot check every once in a while? If it's not too inconvenient, I believe a system should be set up where, once a user reaches a certain post count and, say, two weeks registration time, they should no longer have to suffer having to type indecipherable nonsense.

I think the reason some are fairly indecipherable is that reCAPTCHA is supposed to give you one word that an optical character recognition (OCR) program can recognize and one that it can not. The idea is that your input is only checked on the known word, and they use your input for the unknown word to decipher the text that it came from.

This relies on the used OCR's ability to identify whether it was able to read something or not. The word that it cannot read can basically be anything, including non-words. For this word, it also doesn't matter what you fill in, as far as the captcha goes. However, sometimes an OCR will think it was able to decipher a word, when it was really not able to. In this case you are basically screwed.

What I really don't understand is why we have captcha's here at all. We don't even need to look at someone's postcount and/or how long they have been a member. We can just look at who managed to get an account and log in. Put the captcha at the registration process. Maybe use a captcha when logging in. Do we really get spam from "good" accounts? Was it explained somewhere why The Escapist felt the need for this?

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

I now know that it's impossible to sneeze while laughing your ass off.

.........

Thanks!

(Ironic that I had to do the Captcha thing, too - field atechade. Wonder if that's a new weapon from the Drake series...)

I don't mind about Captcha, really. It annoys me, though, when something comes up and I start to wonder if someone laced my joint. Also, if Captcha, somehow, manages to moon someone, I'll complain. But only a little.

 

[tunderball]

I am King of the Lurkers I hardly ever post unless I feel that I have something important to contribute and I have to fill out a Capatcha to make sure I'm not spamming? Ok fair enough but you could at least make them readable, or in one set language like English? my skills in typing ancient Hebrew are not what they once were.

 

[Death God]

They aren't all that bad but they are funny. I got one that said, "Goat hell-raiser", and I thought it was hilarious myself.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

I can see why some other sites may want to use it, but the Escapist?
Before they introduced the capatcha system here, I barely saw any span at all on these forums...

 

[Ghengis John]

I just got my all time high. It was scientific notation and I didn't even get a screen shot. I just got sorta mad and clicked the refresh button. Now I'll never now if I could figure out how to type N to the power of of equal sign, 7 , over e o ne.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

I understand that if the site needs them to reduce spam, then it's for the better I suppose, although you can count me as one of the others who have not seen spam. My major gripe would be that some are too hard to read for even a human and I often think that the premise of recaptcha is a crock: "Stop Spam, Read Books!" Bullspit.

"Purple flibritbit" is NOT reading "books," it's re-typing one word and some gibberish. I don't care if I'm helping some deciphering project or not, just don't insult my intelligence by saying that I'm reading anything. I'm deciphering. Why not tell me that reading the Men's Room sign is equivalent to reading The Lord of the Rings while we're at it?

 

[Artina89]

Meh, I can't really say captcha bothers me that much. I use it to reread my post and make sure it makes sense etc. If I can't read one of the words, then I just type in one of the words it gives me and it usually lets the post go through.

 

[Katoran]

Meh, you're helping to digitize old books, so consider it your good deed for the day or something.
Not to mention, Captchas actually get people jobs, in China and such; people hired (at terrible rates, but better than none) to fill them in all day for spam bots and such, iirc.

 

[OldAccount]

I don't mind the Capatcha. It sometimes even makes me think twice about posting needlessly.

That said I found it a bit strange the see The Escapist implementing this as I can't think of a single time ever seeing spam on this forum. Even in the pre-Capatcha days.

 

[blankedboy]

To contribute to the meme thingy going on.

For this, I had "cemplen patrem". Easy enough.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

He well I wouldn't know anything about this at least not on this site. Never had it happen here, but I'm guessing that it has something to do with being a Pub Club member.

If not, then I'm very lucky with how many posts I make each month.

In all likelihood some kind of misunderstanding like that spawned wicca.

That was awesome, I still can't stop laughing.

 

[Alade]

This site has captcha?

 

[Centrophy]

Honestly, all the captcha does is keep me from contributing to any discussions on this site. I'm only posting to this thread because it seems I'm allowed one post every couple of hours before I get a captcha. I'm sure the real reason is just to get people to join the Publisher's Club.

Also, I never saw spam here either, but I usually just read the news room posts.

 

[Creator002]

This site has captcha?

That's what I was thinking. The entire time I've been signed up on the Escapist (pretty much 6 months exactly), I've never had to enter Captcha.

EDIT - Read the post above mine.

I'm sure the real reason is just to get people to join the Publisher's Club.

Does having Pub Club disbale Captcha? If so, how new is Captcha (here)? I've only had Pub Club since December.

 

[brunothepig]

onecusta nr&st

I just had to type that to post this thread. I'm sure many of you reading this had to type some similar gibberish to reply to another thread earlier today. Now, I have nothing against spam-protection, but isn't it a little odd that people who have high post counts and have been registered for months, even years, get a spambot check every once in a while? If it's not too inconvenient, I believe a system should be set up where, once a user reaches a certain post count and, say, two weeks registration time, they should no longer have to suffer having to type indecipherable nonsense.

Problem is, accounts can be "hacked". I think it's a necessary evil, my only complaint is that it's usually indistinguishable... For a little while early in it's implementation it was just an image of simple, crisp, clear lettering. That is how it should be.
But it's not as bad as some, and far preferable to spambots or something equally annoying. At least there is the refresh button, I've seen some without that... Awful.

 

[Fire Daemon]

I never thought that The Escapist had a Spambot problem. They would come up, every now and again, but they were always reported to high hell and kicked right out of here. This Capatcha thing seems completely pointless to me.

Thankfully I don't have to put up with them because I give The Escapist 20 bucks a year. Hmmm, maybe that's why they have Capatcha?

 

[aaliya]

Thats great.. that you give 20 bucks a year... But I really want to know the reason behind this,,, Is there any solid reason behind this????

 

[Flames66]

They need to go. They seem to be specifically designed to be painful for dyslexics to read. I often have to refresh the captcha multiple times before a readable one appears.

To contribute to the meme thingy going on.

For this, I had "cemplen patrem". Easy enough.

I had trouble reading the word consent in that. It's the way the s is partly joined up with the e.