OcUK review captures too hard

Serberus · 24 Nov 2009 at 10:10

I had to submit 4 capture readings before my review was accepted. Can these be improved? Surely a simpler one will suffice, is OcUK that much of a target for automated spam in comments?

Example

Tefal · 24 Nov 2009 at 10:11

it says overclockers?

platypus · 24 Nov 2009 at 10:12

Captures

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bledd · 24 Nov 2009 at 10:13

Might be a good idea to have the audio clip hints that some websites have too

Dark_Angel · 24 Nov 2009 at 11:06

The captures can be a tad frustrating.

Greebo · 24 Nov 2009 at 11:06

Glad its not just me who can't read them. I once tried to leave a review and gave up after failing 10 times.

I find ocuk the hardest by miles.

Dark_Angel · 24 Nov 2009 at 11:12

Captures are an extremely annoying system if they are insanely hard.

Other tests are more friendly, such as a text line that reads something like "are you human, if so spell it!" where you have to type in human.

qqg3 · 24 Nov 2009 at 11:17

Captcha? No?

jamief · 24 Nov 2009 at 11:17

Captures?

lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

Dark_Angel · 24 Nov 2009 at 11:18

jamief said:
Captures?

lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPTCHA

Yes we know, but I prefer to say capture just cause.

Rich_L · 24 Nov 2009 at 12:27

Dark_Angel said:
Captures are an extremely annoying system if they are insanely hard.

Other tests are more friendly, such as a text line that reads something like "are you human, if so spell it!" where you have to type in human.

i t ?

Wrekriem · 24 Nov 2009 at 12:30

Annoying, but a compromise. Less spam everywhere.

Duke · 24 Nov 2009 at 12:31

I didn't know that the CAPTCHA ones were helping to digitise books and news papers -

Over 200 million CAPTCHAs are solved every day by people around the world. reCAPTCHA channels this human effort into helping to digitize books and newspapers. When you solve a reCAPTCHA, you help preserve literature by deciphering a word that was not readable by computers.

Morgoth · 24 Nov 2009 at 12:36

I wonder how they know that the reCAPTCHA you solved was correct then?

Wrekriem · 24 Nov 2009 at 12:40

But if a computer can't read such a CAPTCHA, how does the system know the correct answer to the puzzle? Here's how: Each new word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is given to a user in conjunction with another word for which the answer is already known. The user is then asked to read both words. If they solve the one for which the answer is known, the system assumes their answer is correct for the new one. The system then gives the new image to a number of other people to determine, with higher confidence, whether the original answer was correct.

Pretty smart eh?

4T5 · 24 Nov 2009 at 12:43

^^ I am Glad I now know that as it's as cool as ****. :cool:

Thomas. PLease. · 24 Nov 2009 at 12:46

malc30 said:
^^ I am Glad I now know that as it's as cool as ****.

+1

sbi5ar · 24 Nov 2009 at 12:49

Wrekriem said:
Pretty smart eh?

I had no idea that is how they did it....

Tefal · 24 Nov 2009 at 12:50

Dark_Angel said:
Captures are an extremely annoying system if they are insanely hard.

Other tests are more friendly, such as a text line that reads something like "are you human, if so spell it!" where you have to type in human.

I would have typed in "it"

Le_Petit_Lapin · 24 Nov 2009 at 12:59

bledd. said:
Might be a good idea to have the audio clip hints that some websites have too

Yeah, but do them in a really thick Scottish accent for a laugh.