On 5/7/07, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
That cuts off my messages during sending, apparently. Meant to say he likes to bot through old accounts and find weak passwords, then use them to evade semiprotection on his vandalism targets. What could possibly be bad about a captcha, unless you're a login bot?
I've yet to meet a captcha that isn't a pain in the arse. Often they are too blurry for even humans to easily make out, they are long strings of nonsense (it isn't trivial to copy down "ecx76ns", it takes a few seconds), you can't quite see the difference between I and l (capital i and lower-case L, that is), and then if you do get it right it turns out that you mistyped your password and then you have to do it all over again.
That's the downside. I'm not to keen on having captchas for every login, but for repeat logins from the same IP, it does make a lot of sense.