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ASCII captcha

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yea but that's ugly
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:yea but that's ugly
Not to mention illegible (was anyone able to pass the captcha test???) and Expensive ($20 per server or $295 for unlimited servers)
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That ranks up there with the equally bad Olympus captchas someone posted a link to a while ago.
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Post by alex.barylski »

Never did I say it was beautiful...man you guys are a bunch of pessimists(sp?) :P

But yes, it's ugly and it took me a few runs to finally figure out what to read and validate the captch...

But...it doesn't require images and the idea is different...although not very practical...
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what's wrong with requiring images?
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People with quality vision failing it makes it REALLY badly done. Different, I'll agreed there. I'll also say that it should never ever be used by anyone. If I see it, I'll smack you. Yes, I'll get on my Vespa, drive to your house and ambush-smack you as you leave the house. If you're a hermit, I'll ferret you out somehow. Image
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They could have done such a better job at making it readable.

I love the idea, though.
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lol

1. No I would never use it as a CAPTCHA script

2. Nothing wrong with images, but have you ever tried to configure and use a third party CAPTCHA?

3. It's different aka "Outside of the box" although not practical therefore it's neat...cool...but not awesome or amazing!!!

4. Images alone leave the visually impaired blocked from accessing anything. Since my web site is optimized using CSS and validates the best I can get it too, I figure accessability is equally important. I need to seperate myself from competition as much as I can.

5. ASCII art is interesting to me :P
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maybe you could use ascii captcha for text browsers?

bahahaha
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Holy cow. I'm sure if you implement that you'll get rid of all spambots. Maybe get rid of everyone :)

But Hockey, just wondering, how would this be accessible to a visually impaired person? It's even inaccessible for someone with good vision.
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f I see it, I'll smack you. Yes, I'll get on my Vespa, drive to your house and ambush-smack you as you leave the house. If you're a hermit, I'll ferret you out somehow.
I'm scared, I quite liked it. No No i'm not gonna use it! please.
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Not only it's even more inaccessible (imagine how screen reader would read that captcha), it's perhaps easier to break as well.
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