Scratch

What do you mean?

No it doesn't.

It's stupid, and it would help if they were actually WORDS, not stuff like eliop bercge.

cheddargirl wrote:

@Andres-Vander: You can always refresh the words until you find a pair that's easy to read. 

Something else that might make the Captcha's slightly easier is that you only have to get one of the two words right.    In each Captcha, one word is the real word and the other is a fake. If you get the real word right then it doesn't matter what you type for the fake word, so just replace it with something like blah.

The fake word is usually the one that is distorted or stretched, contains random symbols, has dots around it or sometimes uses a different font.

Eg:



^ The fake word here is obasedu, this one is harder to tell because both words look normal-ish though. (Actually I had to guess when I filled it out).



^ The fake word here is easy to see because it's largely compressed and in a different font, but it's Adventures.



^ And the real word here is ribracc.


If you can't tell which is the fake, they're probably both easy to read anyway. But if you come across something that has you leaning forward and squinting to try and figure out what that 3rd letter is, you can just replace it with a random word. 

Last edited by 06dknibbs (2011-02-10 15:15:38)

I can see why you'd need a Captcha on the signup form, but filling one out every time you log in seems kind of overkill.

Are the bots really getting that bad?

Harakou wrote:

hmnwilson wrote:

I can see why you'd need a Captcha on the signup form, but filling one out every time you log in seems kind of overkill.

Are the bots really getting that bad?

For me, it only makes me fill out a Captcha if I get my password wrong. It's probably just to stop brute-force bots and people guessing passwords. It can't really hurt. Honestly, how often do you log in and accidentally enter the wrong password? 

I have to fill one out every time I log in. You don't have to? Lucky.

So I guess it's just one of those things that works differently for everyone.

It's like this bunch of colorful squares, not actual words

hmnwilson wrote:

Harakou wrote:

hmnwilson wrote:

I can see why you'd need a Captcha on the signup form, but filling one out every time you log in seems kind of overkill.

Are the bots really getting that bad?

For me, it only makes me fill out a Captcha if I get my password wrong. It's probably just to stop brute-force bots and people guessing passwords. It can't really hurt. Honestly, how often do you log in and accidentally enter the wrong password? 

I have to fill one out every time I log in. You don't have to? Lucky.

So I guess it's just one of those things that works differently for everyone.

Hmmm.  It's not supposed to work differently for everybody.  Have you tested the feature recently...because there were some changes made to it.