What the hell is up with this f***ing CAPTCHA S**t?

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BUMP.

None yesterday, been saving them all up for today, I guess.

yeah perhaps this is a good thing; the capthchas aren't the only thing that could get to be insistant.

Still getting them on preview and/or submit.

Right glow, let's have a whine about people doing their jobs

yeah coz you wouldn't want to be sad and jobless right?

>THIS SUCKS< I'M READY TO DO ONE. GGGGGGRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR>>>>>>

I was talking about your whining about them doing their job.



Back on topic, yep, still got them

I hate that their explanation for doing it is to "prove that I am human". Yeah, because you never know, one of my CATS might go online and pretend he's a 14-year old girl or something.

A little secret, you only need to type one of the two words correct. The other word is just some random crap they are trying to make you decipher for free. They make a lot of money from all this free labor, by making you digitalize books for them. Basically it is modern day slavery.

This video explains it.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ht4qiDRZE8[/youtube]

I mostly get them when I'm quoting someone, or if I've done multiple posts in a row. Pretty often on PM's.

(*sigh*) Will there be one now? (*holds breath*)

Yes there was.

I've only posted a couple times lately, but I got my first captcha today on a post. I was scared I'd lost the post. Definitely copy/pasting the post next time just in case. And then of course I had to edit a typo in the post and got captcha'd again.

EDIT: And posting this post earned me another captcha. Probably this edit too.

Usually, this happens to me when quoting someone or I copy some text, or make a long post. UGH.

I edit my posts a lot and get captchas whenever I do so.

I don't know how you can feel justified in putting such a negative spin on this. Digitizing books is not just some random crap, it allows people to read books that they never would have had access to normally. His current project is a trade off between learning a language for free while translating web pages into different languages, is that really so bad?

Yes, there is money involved, it's what makes society work. You could go back to typing random crap that serves no purpose, or have no security at all resulting in a non-functioning internet. I know which option I prefer. Why do we need security? Because there are a lot of malicious people who want to steal your money and details, or crash sites for fun. This guy is not one of them.

(Re)Captcha has a place, obviously, just not on a site like this.

Thanks for answering this. If they are generated randomly one would assume that such a generation of data is completely random; however it may not be quite exactly so in that the way information organizes via an electromagnetic medium is that some kind of weight may be placed on the tendency for something that has happened once to repeat itself. This does not mean that captcha is going to learn to speak..ha ha...as it is not a person...however certain word roots are kind of imprinted in what Jung called the group unconscious (personally not too big a fan of Jung) and trends and tendency regarding the way material is organizing in this or that group can affect the way material is being pulled up. Obviously the study of this, if it is even possible to study, is very subjective and so at best a soft science, but there are ways for an individual to study it.

In any case, this captcha phenomena happening here is maybe not going to go away as there is probably no way to completely fix it, but it might morph and re morph according to the way material is organizing and reorganizing on this system. It is a little difficult to explain how it works, but it kind of depends on the tendency of certain patterns in nature to automatically replicate themselves.....

I will not be writing much on this subject, but for anyone interested, I have noticed in the past few times I have encountered captchas on other systems that sometimes the meaning it is possible to attribute to some of them is oddly relevant to the material being posted. Of course I know my own meaning and someone else doesn't know it unless I tell them, so they would need to believe me in order to be able to make any kind of sense out of it, but even if i do tell them, it would not be particularly relevant to their personal context....so it would strike a blank wall.... As mentioned previously, I am more likely to notice these kind of correlations because I am a hard core word root scholar, so certain combinations of letters that might be completely meaningless to someone else have very specific meaning to me and if asked I could easily articulate what these combinations mean and explain exactly why so that other people would see it, like learning another language....

The thing is if people have something really important to say, in my opinion, having to deal with a few captchas will not stop them. I understand it is frustrating, but the effort required may give more grip to something that is flowing perhaps a little bit too fast-- more grip, less slip, so a form of traction....when people start thinking in too many grooves a mechanical quality can kind of take over and then people are more subject to machine like things and phenomena....this is a general principle around how social systems organize, and I think this tendency has become much more pronounced after the industrial revolution....

Solution? I suggest to try to be very consciously attentive when one writes, so more sensitive to the profound social implications and potential of a bunch of very unique and unusual minds communicating, and then this phenomena may kind of wind down....

Of course some if not many may not agree with my interpretation of captcha, which is good as this creates more grip:-)...... ...

Because Google is a big rich company and they should be paying people to do this work. ReCaptcha are just internet bullies. Basically they are saying, if you want to get to your website, you have to come through us first. It's nothing but extortion. Digitalize some words for us, or we are not going to let you post on WrongPlanet.

How do you justify that?



Well at least we agree on that.