Comments on: C[r]apchtas http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/18/crapchtas/ Alan Levine's space for barking about and playing with technology Fri, 25 May 2012 14:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Patrick http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/18/crapchtas/comment-page-1/#comment-15341 Patrick Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:36:15 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/18/crapchtas/#comment-15341 Don't forget about accessibility issues. If you're having problems, imagine the readers who are either blind or have other vision problems. I was using one for a while, till the accessibility issue came on in my head like a light bulb. I'm using a challenge/answer trap now: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/wordpress/wp-gatekeeper.html Don’t forget about accessibility issues. If you’re having problems, imagine the readers who are either blind or have other vision problems. I was using one for a while, till the accessibility issue came on in my head like a light bulb. I’m using a challenge/answer trap now: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/wordpress/wp-gatekeeper.html

]]> By: Alan http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/18/crapchtas/comment-page-1/#comment-15337 Alan Mon, 18 Dec 2006 18:19:24 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/18/crapchtas/#comment-15337 Gulp, mea culpa. It was that, or everything you posted was flagged by SK as spam! I still think it was tripping up on that funky apaostrophe in your name -- somewhere in PHP codeville, it was not doing a stripslash/addslash were needed. But hey, how bad is my craptcha? I've never seen it.... Gulp, mea culpa. It was that, or everything you posted was flagged by SK as spam! I still think it was tripping up on that funky apaostrophe in your name — somewhere in PHP codeville, it was not doing a stripslash/addslash were needed.

But hey, how bad is my craptcha? I’ve never seen it….

]]> By: D'Arcy Norman http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/18/crapchtas/comment-page-1/#comment-15333 D'Arcy Norman Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:19:38 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/18/crapchtas/#comment-15333 meh. I've been presented with a captcha every time I post a comment on your blog for a while now. It hasn't liked me for months, and accuses me of being an evil spammer - punished by having to decipher a captcha :-) meh. I’ve been presented with a captcha every time I post a comment on your blog for a while now. It hasn’t liked me for months, and accuses me of being an evil spammer – punished by having to decipher a captcha :-)

]]> By: Ben http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/18/crapchtas/comment-page-1/#comment-15328 Ben Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:57:55 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2006/12/18/crapchtas/#comment-15328 I had the same problem on my forum Alan. The CAPTCHA that comes with phpBB has been cracked by bots for quite some time now, so I was getting all sorts of spam. I then tried an advanced CAPTCHA (that looks very much like the one you posted), and quickly realized it was a pain in the butt. The solution? I now textual confirmation instead of visual confirmation on my forum. Not only is it visually-impaired friendly, but it's a lot easier for a human being to answer the question "What planet do we live on?" than to decipher some cryptic looking image, and I haven't had a single spam bot register on the site since. I had the same problem on my forum Alan. The CAPTCHA that comes with phpBB has been cracked by bots for quite some time now, so I was getting all sorts of spam. I then tried an advanced CAPTCHA (that looks very much like the one you posted), and quickly realized it was a pain in the butt.

The solution? I now textual confirmation instead of visual confirmation on my forum. Not only is it visually-impaired friendly, but it’s a lot easier for a human being to answer the question “What planet do we live on?” than to decipher some cryptic looking image, and I haven’t had a single spam bot register on the site since.

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