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Have you ever gotten really messed up captcha words?

by Matthew Moyer
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I've signed up to two different things together that required
you to enter some words to verify I was a person.

Both of them were messed up.

The first was Heavy Balls

The second was Iam ****ered

Have you ever had any weird words you needed to enter?

Edit: The word the got blocked rhyes with duck ered
  • Profile picture of the author seasoned
    I HATE most captcha. Some have stylistic letters tilted every way, wavy, multicolored, with some static. If you had PERFECT vision, a 100x magnifying glass, and even filters to get rid of extraneous colors, the waves, styles, and tilts can give you a run for your money!

    HEY FOLKS, computers are NOT smart! You just have to be random(even different bases could do it), avoid the straight patterns that OCR employs, and that is really it. Some of the most complicated stuff, like fixed static, a base image, or color, causes people more problems than computers. KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE!

    Giving a hint(like every other character is a number), or putting serifs on 1s, and slashes through 0s can help, WITHOUT making things easier for computers.

    Steve
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    • Profile picture of the author pengerik
      There's so many captchas where human eyes even would have problem reading what the numbers and characters are. Sometimes I have to retry up to 5-6 times before I'm successfull! It's a pain im the **s sometimes
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  • Profile picture of the author Lady
    Originally Posted by Matthew Moyer View Post

    I've signed up to two different things together that required
    you to enter some words to verify I was a person.

    Both of them were messed up.

    The first was Heavy Balls

    The second was Iam ****ered

    Have you ever had any weird words you needed to enter?

    Edit: The word the got blocked rhyes with duck ered

    That is disgusting. What business can be taken seriously flaunting such poor taste and bad judgment in its word use, with little to no regard for their customers who may be offended. Can you PM the name of the company, because I would rather take my business elsewhere? Thanks.
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    Best Wishes Lee

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    • Profile picture of the author Matthew Moyer
      The first was signing up for an email account.

      The second was joining a facebook fan page.
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    • Profile picture of the author waloosh
      Originally Posted by Lady View Post

      That is disgusting. What business can be taken seriously flaunting such poor taste and bad judgment in its word use, with little to no regard for their customers who may be offended. Can you PM the name of the company, because I would rather take my business elsewhere? Thanks.
      If it's from reCaptcha, it's not the main company's fault. These were are randomly generated from reCaptcha. It's not like they specifically choose those. Most captcha systems are randomly generated, that's why sometimes you'll see things that make no sense, to hilarious things, to down right disgusting ones.


      Beyond that, I've never really gotten any dirty ones that I can remember, but I've gotten some funny ones before. I use reCaptcha on my site and don't have many issues with them. I test my registration quite often to make sure it's still in working condition and still easy to use.
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  • Profile picture of the author JBorhez
    This is the single most time consuming activity when registering for a site.

    ANNOYING!
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