Human verification is the bane of my existence

[Saltyk]

I don't usually fail them more than once. They don't generally bother me too much. They tend to be annoying, but not much else.

Now, Age verification on a site that I have an account on is annoying. Why do I need to verify my age when the Escapist should know my age? Usually just hit some random date in the 1980's or earlier, though. Just to make sure I don't accidentally put in a date that is too young.

Captcha: Johnson and Johnson Describe this brand with any word(s)
Oh, I love these on this site. I just type random words or even just letters with no meaning whatsoever. It's great. *Looks around desk for random thing*
Enters "Sweet Tea"

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I'm more annoyed by the stupidity of most age verification. Not a single time has it ever stopped me from accessing content. Which is sort of the way I like it seeing as I don't think content should be restricted by age, but if we could all just realise that it is not an obstacle to anyone and just do away with it altogether, things would be much more convenient.

Until then I will continue to be 100 years old.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Human verification is for scum that are too lazy to properly manage their own services. The content on the site has to be damn good or the verification to be relatively simple for me to actually deal with that shit.

Luckily the escapist comes under both and doesn't require it each time to post.

No, but it's often enough to be annoying. I have 12,000 posts. Am I human yet?

No. You are just the cutting edge of artificial intelligence until 100K posts.

Pffft, not from THIS planet...

There isn't a snowball's chance in hell of Skynet for another hundred years.

Don't give yourself too much credit. If you were really like skynet you would've just hacked around the captcha.

No no, you're more just like the collective knowledge of Google put through various graph searching algorithms.

 

[FalloutJack]

Don't give yourself too much credit. If you were really like skynet you would've just hacked around the captcha.

No no, you're more just like the collective knowledge of Google put through various graph searching algorithms.

No way could Google produce AI even accidentally. You're sort of thinking the Puppetmaster from Ghost in the Shell. No freakin' way.

 

[Something Amyss]

No, but it's often enough to be annoying. I have 12,000 posts. Am I human yet?

it's in case you stop being human.

 

[FalloutJack]

No, but it's often enough to be annoying. I have 12,000 posts. Am I human yet?

it's in case you stop being human.

I can accept that.

...can you teach me how?

 

[KarmaTheAlligator]

Until then I will continue to be 100 years old.

A friend of mine does that, too, on every site that verifies age, even on Facebook, and no-one called him on it.

OT: a lot of captchas are incredibly difficult to decipher, I know I regularly have trouble with the "letter salad" as OP put it. Favourite kind is when I have to drop a specific item to another spot on the page, as they're very easy. Also the ones here about describing brands, as I know none of them, and just put in anything.

And speak of the devil, although I do know this one, for a change.

 

[Lieju]

I hate them.

They're even more frustrating for my friend, though, who is blind...
Then again, it's nice to know that most of the time I can fool at least the computers into thinking I'm a human.

 

[lacktheknack]

"Human Verification is the Bane of My Existence"

...Uh.

Hilarious implications aside, I never have issues with it. I guess I'm good at detecting patterns.

Didn't stop me from joining the Pub Club to escape them, though.

 

[Olas]

I can't remember the last time I've dealt with human verification. Has it really gotten that bad?

I'm more annoyed by the stupidity of most age verification. Not a single time has it ever stopped me from accessing content. Which is sort of the way I like it seeing as I don't think content should be restricted by age, but if we could all just realise that it is not an obstacle to anyone and just do away with it altogether, things would be much more convenient.

Until then I will continue to be 100 years old.

It's especially dumb on this site because I've actually included my birthdate in my profile info, yet I still have enter my birthday a second time to watch some episodes of the Jimquisition. What's the point in asking me for my birthday if you're not even going to use it for that?

 

[an annoyed writer]

I've had a similar experience, but not with Captchas and such. Instead, some local companies apparently say I don't exist when I apply online for jobs and such because my social security number, according to their databases, doesn't exist. Pain in the ass.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Don't give yourself too much credit. If you were really like skynet you would've just hacked around the captcha.

No no, you're more just like the collective knowledge of Google put through various graph searching algorithms.

No way could Google produce AI even accidentally. You're sort of thinking the Puppetmaster from Ghost in the Shell. No freakin' way.

I din't say Google's knowledge produced that AI. You still need the algorithms. Silly AI, you're breaking apart already.

Although Google could technically be classed as living.

 

[FalloutJack]

Don't give yourself too much credit. If you were really like skynet you would've just hacked around the captcha.

No no, you're more just like the collective knowledge of Google put through various graph searching algorithms.

No way could Google produce AI even accidentally. You're sort of thinking the Puppetmaster from Ghost in the Shell. No freakin' way.

I din't say Google's knowledge produced that AI. You still need the algorithms. Silly AI, you're breaking apart already.

Although Google could technically be classed as living.

Yo dawg, I heard this statement was false, so falsified yo dawg with a false statement from a dawg, yo.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Don't give yourself too much credit. If you were really like skynet you would've just hacked around the captcha.

No no, you're more just like the collective knowledge of Google put through various graph searching algorithms.

No way could Google produce AI even accidentally. You're sort of thinking the Puppetmaster from Ghost in the Shell. No freakin' way.

I din't say Google's knowledge produced that AI. You still need the algorithms. Silly AI, you're breaking apart already.

Although Google could technically be classed as living.

Yo dawg, I heard this statement was false, so falsified yo dawg with a false statement from a dawg, yo.

I think Google just broke.

 

[Sarge034]

If you can't pass the human verification, maybe you're not actually human?

Spoiler

Holden: You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down...

Leon: What one?

Holden: What?

Leon: What desert?

Holden: It doesn't make any difference what desert, it's completely hypothetical.

Leon: But, how come I'd be there?

Holden: Maybe you're fed up. Maybe you want to be by yourself. Who knows? You look down and see a tortoise, Leon. It's crawling toward you...

Leon: Tortoise? What's that?

Holden: [irritated by Leon's interruptions] You know what a turtle is?

Leon: Of course!

Holden: Same thing.

Leon: I've never seen a turtle... But I understand what you mean.

Holden: You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back, Leon.

Leon: Do you make up these questions, Mr. Holden? Or do they write 'em down for you?

Holden: The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

Leon: [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?

Holden: I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?

[Leon has become visibly shaken]

Holden: They're just questions, Leon. In answer to your query, they're written down for me. It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional response... Shall we continue?

Holden: Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about... your mother.

Leon: My mother?

Holden: Yeah.

Leon: Let me tell you about my mother.

[Leon shoots Holden with a gun he had pulled out under the table]

Oh god, the machines are learning. There is a human verification for this particular post. This is the first human verification I have had to do in several months... Am I human? Are YOU human? Is anything real? -.-

 

[Flames66]

Usually you can request to change the image of the letters/numbers you are offered an indefinite amount of times. Isn't that the same with whatever game you tried to verify?

I tried that a few times, but it still gave ridiculously difficult patterns to guess. And if I were to mistype one letter, it was all over

If you can't pass the human verification, maybe you're not actually human?

I thought about that myself...what is..to be human...is it solving captcha?

You're probably a Replicant and captchas are the replacement for the Voight-Kampff test. Expect Harrison Ford to show up at your house and blow you away any day now.

OT: Are you by any change Dyslexic? I am and I struggle with them as well. Anything where the letters are blurred, smudged or over lapping and I can't read it.

 

[Epicspoon]

So what you're saying is..... you're a robot.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Perhaps the real reason you are having so many issues with these is that you aren't really human. What are you hiding?

 

[Username Redacted]

I keep hitting the refresh button on captchas until I get one that isn't an ad, isn't hard to read and isn't particularly long to type in.

 

[otakon17]

You know what pisses me off the most about them? Having to fill one out after a SINGLE post. Seriously why is commenting more than once a Goddamn day considered suspicious activity? Now maybe if it was some 100 posts in a day, or 50 HELL I'd take 20 then it would start making me do captcha's. But its not, it never is since its always after ONE GODDAMN POST! ARGH!