Monday, February 18, 2008

I hate captchas

Dude. Can I tell you how much I hate captchas? You know, the "type the letters you see into this box so we know you're not a robot" action. When I'm signing up for an account, sure, I can take it. I'll enter your captcha so you know I'm legit.

But when I'm trying to leave a comment on a blog, logged in as a Blogger user? Dude. Please don't make me decipher the damn captcha.


captcha, I hate thee
Originally uploaded by webchicken



If I follow your blog, maybe even leave comments, do me a favor, would ya? Turn off captchas. Do you think it really cuts down on spam comments? I allow anonymous blog comments and have not had a spam problem as of yet. I may love you, and love your blog, but I gotta say - I hate captchas.

(Typing "captcha" repeatedly in this post has reinforced how much I loathe them.)

17 comments:

Arco said...

I Hate Captchas!!!

Sometimes u got to guess what the hell it's written on them damn Captchas. It really pisses me off when some of the words are backwards and mostly unreadable, most of all, on some sites when you enter the Captcha letters wrong all the information you was ready to submit resets and disappears, good thing for firefox that remembers most of the fields but frankly Captchas suck balls!!

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Tarry91 said...

Oh my good, you are writing exactly what I am thinking !!!
That's why I directly deactivated it on my Blog !!!

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Pascal said...

AARRRGGGGHHHHH!!! .... they piss me off so much I have to bite hard on something to avoid doing something worse!!

Calinks said...

I hate them with the burning passion of a thousands suns.

i79 said...

I agree! Blogger seems particularly bad

Anonymous said...

I refuse to use captcha. It does not stop spam anyways because spammers use OCR programs to defeat it. The only thing captcha does is make life annoying for legitimate users.

sharpnova said...

I would leave a comment here but I'd probably have to solve a captcha.

Anonymous said...

Yeah I hate captchas definitively u_u

Anonymous said...

amen

Anonymous said...

Whoever thought this stupid shit up should have his balls or her clit stapled together...

Anonymous said...

Hey! No Captcha! I can leave as much spam comments as I want!

Quokka said...

hi. same here.. captcha sucks :) but there is hope! with a little php script you can stop spam without using a captcha at all!!! http://basdebie.com/problem-solvers/best-captcha-alternative-php-mail-form-spam/

Emanuele Rogledi said...

a good system to avoid using captchas is this:
http://keypic.com/

andrew siddle said...

Some time Captcha Code are difficult to understand...
they piss me off...

Anonymous said...

I COMPLETELY agree! I am a tech teacher for 7th graders and had to set up accounts for them and there were those infernal captchas... Can you imagine having to go through that 120 times??!!! Why couldn't they just have like a sentence that says something like "The sum of 25 and 14 is..." and require the user to type in "39"? That would be SOOOOOOO much easier (unless you totally suck at math).

Rachel said...

I immediately back out of every website that uses captcha as I refuse to use it. Most of them are just bloody unreadable. What a waste of time.