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[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Thanks for the feedback, glad to have you here. /u/d3rr is the one to talk to about the captchas. We had to make them difficult to prevent bot-registration which was becoming a problem, but it obviously shouldn't prevent normal users from signing up either, ideally.

The captchas go away after your account is a certain age. Are they really that bad?

[–]paul1149 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Thanks for the reply, I appreciate it. Yes, they really are that bad, the worst I've seen. I'm 71, maybe that's a factor, though I don't consider my eyesight bad. But Lyme does affect nerve sensitivity. But when I saw it was required even to post, not only can I not continue doing that, I can't ask anyone else to join and go through it.

[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Thanks for your feedback, what exactly was hard about it? Was it that regular letters were hard to identify, or was it that there were characters other than letters and numbers? We're working on improving it, but we have to have it a certain level of difficulty to keep this messageboard from being overwhelmed by bad actors, and we're still trying to find a good balance.

[–]paul1149 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I think it was a combination, of the characters being distorted, having fuzzy outlines, and being gray on gray. I can appreciate the dilemma you face. One possible help would be the user ability to generate a new capcha if the present one is not workable. Other than that, I don't know how serious the bot challenge you're up against is, or how advanced the bots are these days. I've seen math problems used as a verifier; they are simple, but I guess a screenreader could solve them.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

the captchas have been updated. you are right, they were too intense/insane.

once you get enough karma/points here, it will stop asking you to do the captcha. thanks for checking out saidit.

[–]paul1149 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks. Much appreciated. I did retry my first thread last evening, and the capcha had disappeared. So I guess I attained tenure!

Be well.