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« on: December 05, 2006, 03:15:24 PM »
Please fix the code thing required for anon posts. I just attempted to post a message and it took 6 times. I may have made one error, but I sure as fuck didn't make 6.
I understand the need for this, but if we're going to have it, it should work correctly. If I were a new person I may have given up after the second or third attempt.
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« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2006, 03:41:25 PM »
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I may have made one error, but I sure as fuck didn't make 6.


Yes you did.

The code takes a sequence of letters and makes an image out of them. The images that are made are from the letters in the system. For an error to happen as you describe it, it would be the same as if you typed an I in the textbox and it came out a J in your post. Not happening.

Some of the fonts look a bit weird so you might think that a letter is something other than what it actually is. No, we're not changing it.
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« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2006, 03:59:49 PM »
I didn't say change it. I asked for it to be "fixed" and gave a rational reason. I typed 6 codes in before it worked. There is obviously a problem. What's the argument for the letters/numbers looking "weird"? Is that necessary to foil spammers?
I'm not an idiot and I don't have problems with vision. If the images are so weird that I indeed made 6 errors, that's a problem. May not be one you're interested in changing, but it is a problem none the less.
And no, I'm apparently not the only person this has happened to. I read another complaint somewhere last night. Just blew it off thinking it was a troll. Then it happened to me.
It doesn't appear to be a user friendly system. Can't the images just be normal. I've seen both on different websites and don't understand the need for the weird ones.
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« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2006, 04:29:11 PM »
Sigh.

I have other things I need to do. When I get back in an hour or so I'll find out which font is causing so many problems for people. Might even adjust the code a bit to take out some of the letters and numbers that people can get confused on.

But yes, it does need to look weird to foil spammers, it just needs to be both weird and human-readable.
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« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2006, 06:06:04 PM »
I just got rid of one of the more annoying fonts used in CAPTCHA and also took a lot of potentially confusing letters out. If you want to try it yourself, there's a CAPTCHA testing thread, have at it.
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« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2006, 10:44:02 PM »
This is brilliant. Is it stopping the spam attack?
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« Reply #6 on: December 30, 2006, 10:35:04 AM »
Yes it is, & I'll bet it pisses them off to no end.  :rofl:  :roll:  :P  :lol:  :cry2:  :evil:  ::both::  ::bwahaha::  :rofl:
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« Reply #7 on: December 30, 2006, 10:55:40 AM »
It doesn't piss them off in the least, because they are robots. It might marginally irritate the bot owner, by one forum out of thousands no longer working for his bots, but I'm sure a lot of other forums have done the same thing.
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« Reply #8 on: December 30, 2006, 12:53:21 PM »
Quote from: ""Milk Gargling Death Penalty""
It doesn't piss them off in the least, because they are robots. It might marginally irritate the bot owner, by one forum out of thousands no longer working for his bots, but I'm sure a lot of other forums have done the same thing.

I know they're 'bots.. I should have been more specific. By "they," I was referring to the childish fucker who turned the 'bots on to this forum! Their (or should i say his) evil plan was foiled.  :lol:
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« Reply #9 on: January 04, 2007, 04:53:21 PM »
Wow thanks for making it ten times easier to make anon posts now!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #10 on: January 04, 2007, 10:13:10 PM »
Actually, I noticed a couple of spams today.

http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?t=20204

http://fornits.com/wwf/viewtopic.php?t=20202

Must either be a very clever bot, or a spammer with a lot of time on their hands.
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« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2007, 11:13:09 PM »
I'm getting complaints about spam all over the place, though somebody must be deleting them before I can find them. (thanks!) So I tweaked CAPTCHA back up about halfway, I think. Might be a little harder to post than before but maybe it'll block the spam bots? Trying to find a happy medium.
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« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2007, 11:14:10 PM »
Here ya go
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« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2007, 11:27:10 PM »
I dumped a few that no one had responded to. Curious, because there wasn't any for a while.
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« Reply #14 on: January 06, 2007, 09:13:05 AM »
I don't know what causes this or if anything can be done about it, but after i post anon it takes a while for it to "take" before the post finally goes through. Maybe it takes the CAPTCHA time to read the code? Or is it just a busy server?
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