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mwb1100:
I began to wonder whether in fact the filter was designed to ensure that only aliens with weird eyesight that saw things in a different wavelength to humans got through
-IainB (July 29, 2016, 12:53 PM)
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Yeah - that's one of the worst CAPTCHAs I've come across:
GS-Base Mini-Review
wraith808:
it's the reason I stopped going to the site.
IainB:
it's the reason I stopped going to the site.
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-wraith808 (July 29, 2016, 05:21 PM)
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I had a LOL at that. It was exactly what I had thought too - I mean, "Did I really need to join that forum if it meant that I had to go through that CAPTCHA?"
The answer, of course, was "No".
That made me wonder whether the CAPTCHA wasn't deliberately off-putting, to dissuade casual use of the forum.
oblivion:
That made me wonder whether the CAPTCHA wasn't deliberately off-putting, to dissuade casual use of the forum.
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There may be some truth in that. I registered on the Citadel5 forum in May 2014 and found the captcha so hard that I had to ask in email (to [email protected]) for the account to be created for me. It's not a very busy forum. Can't think why... :)
I do get the impression that Jarek is a sole operator and might believe that managing a busy forum might take more time than he wants to devote to it. At least emailed requests from known users is likely to keep noise down.
wraith808:
That made me wonder whether the CAPTCHA wasn't deliberately off-putting, to dissuade casual use of the forum.
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There may be some truth in that. I registered on the Citadel5 forum in May 2014 and found the captcha so hard that I had to ask in email (to [email protected]) for the account to be created for me. It's not a very busy forum. Can't think why... :)
I do get the impression that Jarek is a sole operator and might believe that managing a busy forum might take more time than he wants to devote to it. At least emailed requests from known users is likely to keep noise down.
-oblivion (July 31, 2016, 04:09 AM)
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I think your supposition is most likely correct. He's very responsive by e-mail. Which was one of the reasons I never bothered after I couldn't solve the CAPTCHA. And also finding out that this is basically a subscription by another name, and the speed of changing releases.
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