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Re: I hate captchas

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From: Tim Beadle
Date: Mar 13, 2007 4:00AM

On 13/03/07, Penny Roberts < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> I know that you know this: no need to reply. I just need to share...
>
> <vent>
> I hate chaptchas. Four times over the weekend (on completely different
> sites) I had to use the damn things and *every *single *time* I got it
> wrong at the first attempt. One was so unclear that I asked Kev to take
> a look and between us we agreed what the character was. Ha! we were
> both wrong.
> One of them was particularly galling because it was at the bottom of a
> form. One of the firlds on the form was a date and it had a handy
> dandy JavaScript date picker... which told me that I didn't have
> authority to use it! So I had to type the date in manually but there
> was no clue as to the format they required. So I took a guess and got
> it wrong... twice (so three attempts). And each time the B!@@%y captcha
> changed!
> </vent>

I know - I have pretty normal vision and I hate using them too. It's
such a lazy way of bot-proofing your site - it puts all the burden
onto the user instead of the site developer.

My general rule of thumb is this: "it's better to make life easier for
the user, even if that means a harder job for the developer."

Tim