Die catchpa!!!

[Fazermint]

This is a rant about catchpa. For you see, it pisses me off.

Why do we have to interpret those retarded letters that barely resemble letters at all? My vision is exceptional (scored 10/10 on the military test ), but I still have trouble reading that crap.

And what's with the random words? Sometimes there are regular words, but you also sometimes get something like "sanddbe". What IS THIS SHIT???

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[psychokind]

captcha has two words of which you only have to type one if there's one you can't read, you can type anything for it.

[Fazermint]

I of course know that. The question is: Why use retarded letters and words?

[Flamez]

What are you both on about?

[Fazermint]

It's not like I'm talking in riddles here...

I'll rephrase it: Why not use regular letters and words?

[psychokind]

[Ocie Denver]

Fazermint wrote:

It's not like I'm talking in riddles here... I'll rephrase it: Why not use regular letters and words?

Catchpa is meant to stop the bots from spam the websites with unwanted messages.

The shatty bots came to our forums and threw down the pointless posts on us until the guest posts were disable. Only way to get in is have admins accept an application.

The bots are still roaming in the Internet. Watch for them.

[Mantaray]

that giant equation is ridiculous do they even want people there in the first place?

[chicken]

so much for "so real words". pft.

[Fazermint]

I know what catchpa is for. I r not stooped.

For zeh third time:

Why not just use regular letters and words? Bots can't recognize objects on an image, so it can't recognize letters, no matter how standard they are.

If someone's gonna answer a question that I totally didn't ask one more time, I'll have to do an epic facepalm.

[EverPhoenix]

Fazermint wrote:

I know what catchpa is for. I r not stooped. For zeh third time: Why not just use regular letters and words? Bots can't recognize objects on an image, so it can't recognize letters, no matter how standard they are. If someone's gonna answer a question that I totally didn't ask one more time, I'll have to do an epic facepalm.

a relevant answer:

using techniques similar to face recognition, bots can be written to recognise letters and if required, match them to a dictionary. it isnt particularly hard to write (i mean, i could probably write something like that given sufficient motivation and an image hack tool).

that could be why the letters are often warped, and the words are strange.

[Fazermint]

EverPhoenix wrote:

a relevant answer: using techniques similar to face recognition, bots can be written to recognise letters and if required, match them to a dictionary. it isnt particularly hard to write (i mean, i could probably write something like that given sufficient motivation and an image hack tool). that could be why the letters are often warped, and the words are strange.

Oh kay. Didn't know bots could do that, my Information Systems teacher said image recognition technology was pretty bad. But I guess letter recognition is more of a basic thing, then? 0_x

And yay, I didn't have to facepalm... I really felt like

[inferiare]

@FM: I think Dpit was answering Flamez, not you

On topic: I think captcha is hilarious.

[Miss Prime Blue]

those are super annoying, I agree. And they aren't always capable at preventing spam.

[EverPhoenix]

Fazermint wrote:

EverPhoenix wrote: a relevant answer: using techniques similar to face recognition, bots can be written to recognise letters and if required, match them to a dictionary. it isnt particularly hard to write (i mean, i could probably write something like that given sufficient motivation and an image hack tool). that could be why the letters are often warped, and the words are strange. Oh kay. Didn't know bots could do that, my Information Systems teacher said image recognition technology was pretty bad. But I guess letter recognition is more of a basic thing, then? 0_x And yay, I didn't have to facepalm... I really felt like

well, it is pretty bad. thats why captcha still exists. if they were to use simple letters, and not warp them, there would be little point. (ever tried to use a program to read text from an image? my friend has and it took him about half a hour to read a massive rasterised pdf with no idea on how to do it)