This would slow down the spammers

SandJ · Post by **SandJ** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:35 am

When trying to post a message on someone else's blog I got this challenge:

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:38 am

It would slow me down too - how to you enter "pi"?

CommonSenseOTB · Post by **CommonSenseOTB** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 2:40 pm

It appears to be a test of intelligence. Perhaps SandJ is looking for us to answer the question he could not?

JensAyton · Post by **JensAyton** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 3:18 pm

CommonSenseOTB wrote:
It appears to be a test of intelligence. Perhaps SandJ is looking for us to answer the question he could not? :P

OK. In a ReCAPTCHA, only one of the two words is an actual CAPTCHA. The other is being tested to see if humans give a consistent response (in which case it will be used as a CAPTCHA in future). If one is incomprehensible or not Latin script, writing some random word should work – like “x stoUpI”.

Website · Post by **DaddyHoggy** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:59 pm

Ahruman wrote:
CommonSenseOTB wrote:
It appears to be a test of intelligence. Perhaps SandJ is looking for us to answer the question he could not?
OK. In a ReCAPTCHA, only one of the two words is an actual CAPTCHA. The other is being tested to see if humans give a consistent response (in which case it will be used as a CAPTCHA in future). If one is incomprehensible or not Latin script, writing some random word should work – like “x stoUpI”.

Ah-ha! I've seen nonsense before and just kept hitting refresh until something I could read popped up! Now I understand what's going on.

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