Captcha for every message it seems
by Demolishun · in Site Feedback · 12/17/2011 (9:15 pm) · 7 replies
Hey GG,
Why is it requiring me to enter a captcha for practically every message? Is it wonky? I don't remember it doing it before?
For this message it is requiring it, crazy.
Why is it requiring me to enter a captcha for practically every message? Is it wonky? I don't remember it doing it before?
For this message it is requiring it, crazy.
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#2
12/18/2011 (11:33 am)
We added captchas for starting threads after the spam attack that Bloodknight mentioned. They pulled a knife, we pulled a gun, that's the Chicago way.
#3
Don't they have to be a product owner to post without captchas?
12/18/2011 (1:40 pm)
Good, I am glad I was not seeing things. Everytime I went to edit the thread post it did a captcha too. I was stating to wonder if I was going crazy. Don't they have to be a product owner to post without captchas?
#4
12/21/2011 (6:03 am)
Speaking of the captcha, I swear that half the time I'm positive that I entered the text perfectly and I'm rejected with a "wrong capcha". 
#5
edit: allowing 'owners' to bypass the captcha system does seem a reasonable and legit way of stopping spammers without impeding real users, perhaps having 100+ posts could be another captcha bypass.
12/21/2011 (6:09 pm)
I'm pretty sure that there is a timeout on the captcha, i'm generally a slow poster, being both dyslexic and a typotastic expert, it takes me a long time to fix my posts (and yes they are fixed, you should see this crap before editing) or at least longer posts, to such an extent that every single time ive posted my catcha has been rejected.edit: allowing 'owners' to bypass the captcha system does seem a reasonable and legit way of stopping spammers without impeding real users, perhaps having 100+ posts could be another captcha bypass.
#6
Respect man, RESPECT!
I can only imagine how you deal with websites that clear the entry field when a message being sent times out. There are some things that back buttons cannot fix.
Thanks for the insight on the captcha. I find it times out on my a lot as well. I never thought of it timing out. That probably has something to do with bots and pattern recognition prevention, and multiple retries on the same captcha.
12/21/2011 (6:59 pm)
@Bloodknight,Respect man, RESPECT!
I can only imagine how you deal with websites that clear the entry field when a message being sent times out. There are some things that back buttons cannot fix.
Thanks for the insight on the captcha. I find it times out on my a lot as well. I never thought of it timing out. That probably has something to do with bots and pattern recognition prevention, and multiple retries on the same captcha.
#7
I got a double post, so I guess that is a clue to what started me off in the wrong direction. One post got through, one got rejected, I saw the rejected one and kept trying. So I'm less bothered now than I was 30 seconds ago.
The captcha still felt surprisingly unfriendly.
Captcha preferences:
1) I would obviously prefer not to go through captchas. Do paying customers really spam these boards?
2) "New challenge" button (not that important, you get new challenge anyway)
3) Put both captcha and error message in plain sight on captcha error.
The page is very "quiet" and neutral. It lacks a signal effect saying "your request has been processed and failed". Maybe I'm just used to pages trying very hard to keep me informed.
12/28/2011 (11:58 am)
The captchas on this site threw me off. Maybe they didn't give the feedback I'm used to.I got a double post, so I guess that is a clue to what started me off in the wrong direction. One post got through, one got rejected, I saw the rejected one and kept trying. So I'm less bothered now than I was 30 seconds ago.
The captcha still felt surprisingly unfriendly.
Captcha preferences:
1) I would obviously prefer not to go through captchas. Do paying customers really spam these boards?
2) "New challenge" button (not that important, you get new challenge anyway)
3) Put both captcha and error message in plain sight on captcha error.
The page is very "quiet" and neutral. It lacks a signal effect saying "your request has been processed and failed". Maybe I'm just used to pages trying very hard to keep me informed.
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