CAPTCHA - Work of the Devil
Posted on 9th June, 2007 by TW
Every one knows that allowing bots to post things on people’s behalf is a bad thing. I mean it contributes to spam comments on blogs - which no one likes. Obviously anything which works against this evil is a GoodThing®?
Well, no. I don’t agree. First off, there are better ways to prevent things like automated signups, automated submissions and spam bots. More importantly, they are such an annoying thing I can’t for one second think they do not drive visitors/subscribers and commenters away. Now, I would love to see the business model of a website (especially a “Web 2.0″ one) which is happy to drive a percentage (however small) of it’s customers away.
Now, I am healthy, have good eyesight and fully functional manual control - and I have a hard enough time getting round some of the CAPTCHAs out there. I dread to think what it is like for people who have even slight visual impairments or motor co-ordination issues. Over the last few weeks, I have suffered numerous, infuriating, problems with CAPTCHAs on sites which really should know better.
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