Comments on: The Spam / Captcha Conundrum

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 21:57:38 +0000

Keep reCaptcha, it helps on spam while also doing something useful. Other captchas don’t really work well, are hard to read, and are annoying. I don’t find reCaptcha like that.

By: Roger

Roger — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:56:55 +0000

@CHAD

That’s hysterical! Thanks! Go kitten captcha!

P. S.: I’m resubmitting this, I screwed up the ReCapthca the first time…never would have happened with kittens.

By: anotherdavid

anotherdavid — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:52:59 +0000

there are captchas and captchas, some are so complicated with almost overlapping characters that are completely unreadable. Yours is readable, and forms an actual word. Sites like Myspace have captchas that can be interpreted, instead of read.
It is a damn shame that the spammers are ruining the internet. They are no better than terrorists, really, who can force the free world into taking measures that would otherwise not be necessary. A captcha to place a comment is nothing more than getting frisked at the airport. Both, unfortunately, have become necessities.

By: chad

chad — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:37:56 +0000

I vote kitten captcha

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060407-6554.html

;)

By: fernyb

fernyb — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:37:50 +0000

Keep the CAPTCHA

By: Eleventeen

Eleventeen — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:36:44 +0000

Keep it. I don’t mind captchas in general as long as they’re not one of the infamous unreadable examples. recaptchas aren’t typically that bad.

By: Carlos

Carlos — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 05:03:54 +0000

Keep it. Like stated above, it’s for a good cause.

By: jopari

jopari — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:00:54 +0000

It knows what one of the words is already, so if you get that word correct it assumes that the other word is correct as well. It’s a little dicey, but apparently it works pretty well.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:53:29 +0000

Some feedback: My comment posted correctly, however, I still received the error message.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 01:51:08 +0000

What I don’t get with the reCaptcha is how it works.

The computer can not read it in the first place. How does it know what I type in is correct?

LOL. Tried typing what it said, it said “Incorrect Captcha”