Dear Escapist Magazine: Captcha This

[Esotera]

xD you realise that the whole point of captchas is that they don't know what the individual letters in the words are, so it's pretty hard to pick out & exclude m and n, etc. I haven't had any difficulty with them, apart from the greek character ones, which there's a convenient refresh button for. I almost enjoy them.

So, the point is not to differentiate between humans and machines? It's actually meant to see how lucky of a guesser you are? Or to keep track of how many times you push the refresh button?

The point is that it's too hard for a machine to efficiently determine what the word is, so if you can solve it, you're probably a human. As a result we tend to get words that are hard to read. But anything that stops spam & helps us read books, whilst making the site some revenue, isn't bad, in my opinion.