# Image verfication SUCKS. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 23, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/image-verfication-sucks/434615 "2008-01-23T02:11:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/image-verfication-sucks/434615/21 "2008-01-23T16:50:54Z")
[QUOTE=gazpacho] Don’t you hate it when you fail a Turing test? [/QUOTE] Actually, failing Turing tests is my job. Seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/do_not_taunt/32/2968_2.png) [@Do\_Not\_Taunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Do_Not_Taunt)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2008, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/image-verfication-sucks/434615/22 "2008-01-23T16:58:04Z")
CAPTCHAs should be modified to be more like this anyway: [Internet Access CAPTCHAs](http://www.defectiveyeti.com/iacaptchas/) ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/image-verfication-sucks/434615/23 "2008-01-24T01:51:40Z")
Why the hell do they have to make them so hard to read? Is a comprehensible font somehow easier for a computer to make out than wavy-Gs-that-look-like-Js? I’m neither colorblind nor illiterate, and it’s still not unusual for it to take five or six tries. I have no problem with the concept, but the execution is so poor that I refuse to use any site that requires them unless I have no alternative (such as Ticketmaster). I can’t be the only one. Hopefully enough people will eventually vote with their feet… er, fingers… and a better system will go in. ---
**Author:** ![athelas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@athelas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/athelas)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/image-verfication-sucks/434615/24 "2008-01-24T01:59:07Z")
There’s always [another method](http://xkcd.com/233/) for detecting bots. ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/image-verfication-sucks/434615/25 "2008-01-24T02:47:58Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Hey, howcum **gazpacho** gets two lines of praise for saying > [@gazpacho](#): > > Don’t you hate it when you fail a Turing test? ``` , and I got nothing when I said the same thing two weeks ago?: ``` [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=447637&highlight=Turing](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=447637&highlight=Turing) [/QUOTE] It is because I am cool and I have pizazz. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/image-verfication-sucks/434615/26 "2008-01-24T03:10:47Z")
“You know the difference between you and me? I make this (The Black Suit and shades) look cool.” ``` -- Will Smith's character in **Men in Black**. ``` Yeah. And I’m just business-as-usual Tommy Lee Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/image-verfication-sucks/434615/27 "2008-01-24T07:05:37Z")
[QUOTE=Projammer] The only ones that really bother me are the ones where they screy with font size and distortion and then use letters that are the same for upper and lower case.. Zz. Ss. Cc. [/QUOTE] Right. I can generally read them, but this almost always happens to me. Or so it seems. ---
**Author:** ![Gatorade\_Brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/fbc32d/32.png) [@Gatorade\_Brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatorade_Brain)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/image-verfication-sucks/434615/28 "2008-01-25T04:35:49Z")
I hope whoever invented them ‘captchas’ a case of the clap. Just for coming up with this silly ebonics phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Waenara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@Waenara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Waenara)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2008, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/image-verfication-sucks/434615/29 "2008-01-25T07:43:08Z")
[QUOTE=Gatorade Brain] Just for coming up with this silly ebonics phrase. [/QUOTE] :dubious: At the risk of whooshing - how is that ebonics? [“ **C** ompletely **A** utomated **P** ublic **T** uring test to tell **C** omputers and **H** umans **A** part”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/image-verfication-sucks/434615.md?page=1)