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jheaton5 wrote:Given the individual differences among varous users, how would you generate a list of acceptable responses?
The basis of my suggestion is that humans are much more capable at image recognition compared to a bot. The noise I am referring to, is the "image" generated when there is no video signal. Modern TV sets tend to block that.
Obviously, one has to use simple images and users should be presented with a multiple choice question.
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Yup too confusing. It's pretty clear after getting it wrong but you shouldn't have to get a question wrong to get through. Even "what is the middle number rounded up?" would make it clearer. Man this is the sort of thing that will niggle away at me all day now, a little part of me wants to go re-register so I can get it right first time.
As a newcomer and non-native English speaker, the question is too confusing. It is *the* most confusing anti-bot question I have encountered.
My first reaction to the term "middle" was to find the number that is physically in the middle of the list, but the list has an even number of items, so that was ruled out. You should have worded the question more precisely and used common mathematical terms. I bet you wouldn't get more bots because of that.
It got me, after reading the question a few times I just tried 2 then got an error message basically telling me the answer is 3. At least I didn't have to re-enter any details.
I can see how it could be very confusing for someone whose first language isn't English.
The entire point of the question is to confuse spambots. Unfortunately they seem to be able to find the answer better than most normal people.
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craigevil wrote:The entire point of the question is to confuse spambots. Unfortunately they seem to be able to find the answer better than most normal people.
A person who programs spambots is able to figure it out in seconds then takes minutes to program the bot to register 45000 names since last summer.
craigevil wrote:The entire point of the question is to confuse spambots. Unfortunately they seem to be able to find the answer better than most normal people.
A person who programs spambots is able to figure it out in seconds then takes minutes to program the bot to register 45000 names since last summer.
^ This. It's confusing to most people as it simply doesn't make sense so you have to have a guess but once you know the answer it is fixed so can easily be repeated.
I answered this question at a glance. 3 is physically in the middle. Only an odd amount of characters can have a something physically in the middle. Such as 12|34, there is no middle. 12|3|45, 3 is in the middle.
Even in binary 0 is a place holder, not a number. Simple math.
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