Surprisingly, many people don’t know that CAPTCHAs suck.

No prob.

At least on sites like Google there’s usually an audio option if the CAPTCHA is that stupid. On blogs that use CAPTCHAs, there is no alternative.

Mari uses Opera, which caches everything, and goes back and puts her comment in a text file so she doesn’t lose it while fuming in her next comment about how the owner needs to install Akismet and they’re only hurting their visitors. And Mari does get really ticked off when she has to retype her comments, and types the exact same thing almost. XD

I personally hate CAPTCHAs as well. There have been times where I honestly felt a bit miffed and insulted when I got a message saying I didn’t pass math or something to that effect when I clearly put the correct answer in. Then there are the word image ones where they are so twisted, deformed, or have lines and what not obscuring them so badly I can’t read what the special phrase is to type it in. Hlaf the time they don’t have an option enabled to listen to what is written or it doesn’t work properly.

To top it off, most of the time my comment is no longer in the textbox and I have to retype the damn thing all over again. When that happens, people with that kind of spam protection usually get a message from me along the lines of “well I had a really nice comment for you but your CAPTCHA plugin is flawed and resulted in the erasure of my comment. So to summarize…” and I’ll just make some short notes and that’s it. Forget leaving nice and helpful comments I have better things to do then sit there and try my luck on their comment form.

It must be that you have to sign up. Some people are THAT lazy.

And robots can pass CAPTCHAs! There’s a constant war between CAPTCHA makers and spambot makers to make the CAPTCHAs unreadable, but then someone makes a spambot that can read it.

And how SHE hates them too!

Emz personally uses, and loves Akismet and doesn’t understand why WP users don’t use Akismet too.

Emz finds the math CAPTCHAs demeaning and annoying. Why must her brain continue to be tested? Surely robots can do simple math too anyway?

Emz wish CAPTCHAs weren’t used for comment protection. Emz rarely understands what they are saying, and has a stoopid way of seeing everything different from normal!

Yeah, SK2 can have problems until you read through 20 pages of documentation to find out how to permanently whitelist people.

Well, in contact forms, it’s more acceptable. Contact forms are easily susceptible to spam.

I don’t like SK2 though. Mostly due to the annoying bug that caused my comments to be held. *grumbles*

I do use Captcha for my contact forms though just because it’s simple to install and is already implemented in the script I use.