{"id":1692,"date":"2006-04-21T13:04:55","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2006\/04\/21\/captcha_gone_ve.html"},"modified":"2006-04-21T13:04:55","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T13:04:55","slug":"captcha_gone_ve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2006\/04\/21\/captcha_gone_ve.html","title":{"rendered":"captcha gone very very wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spam sucks &#8211; we all know that.  While captcha certainly helps, it also alienates lots of folks.  As a society, we&#8217;ve never been good at recognizing disabilities.  I remember watching a near-blind computer user try to get past captchas and i felt terrible for what our industry does.  Yet, i had never felt the frustration.  Until today.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/peoplesvoice.webbyawards.com\/\">Webby Awards<\/a> uses captcha on every vote.  I wanted to vote for <a href=\"http:\/\/cuteoverload.com\/\">Cute Overload<\/a> (omg&#8230; sooo cute) so i created an account to vote.  It took me only 2 tries to get passed the first captcha.  But the captcha that i got on Blog-Culture took me SEVEN tries to get right.  I tried voting for two more categories &#8211; i got past the second one after 5 tries and then took another 8 to get past the next one.  I gave up on voting.  I wonder how many people stop participating because of stupid stuff like this?  I&#8217;m trying to imagine my grandmother on her model dealing with captcha &#8211; that would so never happen (unless it looked like a Solitaire game).<\/p>\n<p>Since i&#8217;m thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/cuteoverload.com\/\">Cute Overload<\/a>, i might as well share the picture from today that made me ooh and awww:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mfrost.typepad.com\/cute_overload\/images\/647.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam sucks &#8211; we all know that. While captcha certainly helps, it also alienates lots of folks. As a society, we&#8217;ve never been good at recognizing disabilities. I remember watching a near-blind computer user try to get past captchas and i felt terrible for what our industry does. Yet, i had never felt the frustration. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web2-0","tag-captcha"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}