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bichon


Joined: 19 Aug 2005
Posts: 11329
Location: Canada

Post Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 11:56 am     Reply with quote

i am really fed up with capcha..

1) the words on black are often inelligable causing me to refresh 2 , 3 or 5 times.
2) the words are too long

i've seen some better ones out there.. simple ones..
like they show you a picture and you just choose the word describing it from , i think, a drop down box..
or systems without words on black blotches...

i think i've seen a capcha without those black backgrounds...

anyone agree ?
filipeb


Joined: 01 Mar 2006
Posts: 955
Location: Algarve - Portugal

Post Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 12:29 pm     Reply with quote

bichon wrote:
i am really fed up with capcha..

1) the words on black are often inelligable causing me to refresh 2 , 3 or 5 times.
2) the words are too long

i've seen some better ones out there.. simple ones..
like they show you a picture and you just choose the word describing it from , i think, a drop down box..
or systems without words on black blotches...

i think i've seen a capcha without those black backgrounds...

anyone agree ?


I AGREE

A word and a question:

insert the 3rd (Random) letter of the word

i saw this somewhere...
bichon


Joined: 19 Aug 2005
Posts: 11329
Location: Canada

Post Posted: Wed May 26, 2010 3:01 pm     Reply with quote

nope. doesn't work
apotterdd


Joined: 10 Apr 2009
Posts: 7003
Location: Trying to get my latinum back from Quark

Post Posted: Tue Jun 15, 2010 8:40 pm     Reply with quote

Do buyers have to sign in with a captcha system? If not, why do the contributors need to?
newstar88


Joined: 29 Jun 2010
Posts: 1
Location: Bucyrus, OH

Post Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 5:39 pm     Reply with quote

I find color coded ones are even harder to do as a colorblind submitter. I don't like the current one all as well as others I've seen either. Isn't it a little outdated?

~Nate
bichon


Joined: 19 Aug 2005
Posts: 11329
Location: Canada

Post Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 6:07 pm     Reply with quote

newstar88 wrote:
I find color coded ones are even harder to do as a colorblind submitter. I don't like the current one all as well as others I've seen either. Isn't it a little outdated?

~Nate


its just a royal pain in the a$$. this is the only place i've seen the black backgound version...
i really have to regenerate when the letters merge into the background.
i am really really really fed up... i mean a random generating program (which capcha prevents) has the ssme difficulty, with background or no background.
why i have to waste time on this (and the words are crazy long).....
the only place ...
the only ....
place..
lilcrazyfuzzy


Joined: 29 Nov 2005
Posts: 12926
Location: 50°46′31″N 6°4′58″E

Post Posted: Sun Jul 04, 2010 5:55 am     Reply with quote

Have your eyes tested ;)

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lkeiows


Joined: 12 Jul 2005
Posts: 133
Location: Osaka, Japan

Post Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 4:18 am     Reply with quote

Why don't they show it only to those who abuse the service?

This is really depressing.



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pdtnc


Joined: 28 Jan 2006
Posts: 78
Location: UK - Leeds

Post Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2010 11:37 am     Reply with quote

Yeah, it is thoroughly doing my head in, it actually puts me off logging in some days.

Get rid of it!
pjmorley


Joined: 15 Apr 2005
Posts: 3300

Post Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 1:14 pm     Reply with quote

apotterdd wrote:
Do buyers have to sign in with a captcha system? If not, why do the contributors need to?


No, buyers don't have to sign in with a captcha system. The only reason I can think of for having the captcha system for contributors is to prevent the collection of data by automated 3rd party sites.

Some users sign up to these data collection sites to help track their image sales across multiple sites. However, in order for it to work, yo have to provide your usernames and passwords to allow the collection site to log into your account and access your download data.

I assume SS thinks this is an unacceptable security risk and the way to prevent it is by using a captcha system so these collection sites can't log in automatically.

I can't think of the names of any of the sites that offer this but there are a couple and as far as I know, none of them are able to include SS in their data collection because of the captcha system.

What I don't understand is why anyone would willingly give their usernames and passwords from their account s which contain private information, paypal/moneybooker details etc. to a 3rd party just so they can get a pretty graph of their downloads.
fredericb


Joined: 28 Aug 2006
Posts: 4
Location: FR

Post Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2010 12:03 pm     Reply with quote

I AGREE!
pdtnc


Joined: 28 Jan 2006
Posts: 78
Location: UK - Leeds

Post Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:09 am     Reply with quote

Just to reiterate...

This thing Pi55es me off each and every time I log in!
And it seems the words are getting more abstract with numbers and symbols, words that mean nothing making them harder to read and repeat.
memaggiesa


Joined: 10 Nov 2009
Posts: 47

Post Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:20 am     Reply with quote

Yip I'm with you.


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rinder99


Joined: 12 Jul 2005
Posts: 39226
Location: Contact www.rinderart.com/Books and Workshops www.rindersmithphotography.com Youtube/rinder

Post Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 8:03 pm     Reply with quote

wonder what Im doing right. it never pops up.
digigandalf


Joined: 11 Jun 2005
Posts: 5412
Location: Twinsburg, OH

Post Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 8:08 am     Reply with quote

One work-around is to just stay logged on — that is, don't log off when you go to look at other sites.

That works pretty well for my main computer, but you have to visit SS at least once a day to stay logged in. On my other computer at home, I'm always getting logged off against my will (even in less than 24 hrs.) and then the captcha fun begins.

If you have to refresh the captcha word because it's illegible (which is more than half the time), then Firefox forgets the log-in password, which it's supposed to remember. Aaargggh!
 
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