...Really now, Escapist? I am disappoint.

[thirdsonsaburo]

It's kind of ironic, using advertisements to fight posts that are essentially advertisements.

 

[SnipErlite]

Really? I though PubClubbers didn't get them because the subscription basically overrides whether you're a spambot. :/

OT: I still have only a vauge idea what the hell is going on and had to Google 'Captchas' to find out what everyone is complaining about.
Safe to say, I haven't come across them yet.

Well when The Escapist's captchas are harder to decipher than 4chan's...something is strange on the internet.

Granted I've only had a few, but I've failed them all at least once. The newer system with questions is technically better although I've heard of one or two impossible questions that god knows who put in and for what reason.

*shrug* I don't see a lot of spam but I hear that's due to the good mods, so I guess we can't really complain.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Half the time I get it "wrong" because I can't read it, and once it even gave me an "e" or something that had to have the two dots over it...

 

[A Pious Cultist]

Personally I don't see why I need to give you a captcha. I've been here for months and have hundreds of legitimate posts, I'm not a spam bot. Now for users that or say only a week old and have only a handful of posts sure but it seems pointless to have them for long-time users.

Also wow the audio version is fucking inaudible thanks to Realplayer-in-the-90s grade bitrate. It sounds like they're under an ocean of tin foil.

 

[Ashcrexl]

i find it pretty funny that i always fail the first time, but always get the second one. i think they're just fuckin with me.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

They appear to be gone...

 

[Worgen]

they are damn annoying, seems like I have to put in the stupid code every 3 or 4 posts

 

[A Pious Cultist]

@Ashcrexl

I almost feel like it may have been a genuine bug because I failed every single first try too. Although it could be something as simple as failing causing me to pay more attention.

 

[Quaidis]

I have to join the group and say that the Captchas recently implimented are nigh impossible to read for a normal person. I kept getting them wrong, even if I was damned sure I typed in the thing right, then I switched to the voice one. I can't hear the voices half the time in all the scrambled sound (bots can hear voice clips? Why are the voices scrambled too?) and have to turn it up loud to hear them at all. Then even if I'm right it wants me to redo it half the time.

 

[BreakfastMan]

They are annoying, but at least they seem stop spam bots. We don't want the site to become as spam-bot infested as IGN (where a good third of the comments are from spam bots).

 

[Sn1P3r M98]

I get them occasionally, but they've been appearing less and less over the course of the last 3 or 4 days.

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

Advertisements? I haven't noticed any of the captchas being advertisements. The only thing I can complain about them is that sometimes they are hard to read. Other than that I don't really have a problem as they don't pop up often enough and when I didn't notice one it saved my post and had me put complete it.

 

[chstens]

Huh, that is fascinating... Captchads?

 

[NaramSuen]

I never saw one until I clicked on this thread. You jinxed it!

 

[The_Echo]

Yeah, Captcha is annoying. But it's not for every single post. For example, this post I'm writing right now has no Captcha.

It's here to reduce spam, and I'm OK with this.

 

[thethingthatlurks]

Not that I'm against cutting down on spam, but I once had to repost the same thing three times, because the bloody thing wouldn't accept my perfectly written captcha. WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!?!?!
Anyway, it seems to be gone now, at least for me. Guess that means I'm not one of those nefarious spambot things.
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