Thursday, May 01, 2008

I captcha the castle

Recently, I've been getting a bit fed-up with the captcha on the Connotea site. Unlike various grouchos, I am quite happy with the Connotea interface and functionality in general. But I find their captchas particularly hard to read, and it frequently takes me multiple attempts (5, in the worse case so far) to guess, for example, whether a character is a "1", an "l", an "i" or a "j".

Upon whingeing about this to colleagues, I heard about a captcha test requiring the user to assess whether a drawing was of a dog or a cat.

Where will it end?

Before we upload your posting/bookmark/comment, please confirm that you are not a computer by telling us: Is this elephant fulfilled, or is he yearning for more in life?

Is the elephant happy or sad?

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