I DESPISE CAPTCHA's

Submitted by Tresler on Fri, 2008-06-13 16:21.

Those wavy-line letter meant to stop spam-bots that work, but are so unintuitive and inhibitive that people get annoyed. HATE THEM, hate them, hate them, hAtE ThEm!!

Almost as much as I hated combing through 9,146 spam comments, but not quite.

Suck it up, deal with the form.

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Stop Spam. Read Books.

Submitted by Lee LaTour aka Josh's Mom (not verified) on Mon, 2008-06-16 23:07.

Sad to say, captcha is a necessary evil. Suggest you take a look at reCAPTCHA.

It's open source and developed at Carnegie Mellon. The idea is to not only stop the bots but to digitalize scanned text from books not readily available for the web.

I use it on our sites. They have an API to theme the design and support ADA [though must say it's a bit trippy].

Hope all is well in Brooklyn.

-lee

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