Don't want to be offending but

http://85.131.170.109/apicer/files/pic. ... a63249.jpg

are you kidding me?
Im from germany, so my native language is not english.
That's one hell of a captcha. I think it keeps alot of people away from the site.

Oh and btw, no BBcodes? I can't get the image in this post.

This is an English speaking board. Sorry if that means you can't complete the Captcha.

BBCode is disabled for new accounts to help prevent spambots.

By the way, I still say Pluto's a planet. Don't care what the IAU says.

Just thought I'd throw that in there.

The thing most people don't understand is that astronomers have been finding objects in the solar system that are larger that Pluto is, and yet we do not also classify them as planets. There was never a solid definition of what exactly makes a planet, and so that's what the IAU did. Unfortunately it meant that Pluto didn't make the cut. Because if we had lowered the standards to include Pluto, then it would also include a ton of other bodies and we'd have like 30 planets or something.

msleeper wrote:
The thing most people don't understand is that astronomers have been finding objects in the solar system that are larger that Pluto is, and yet we do not also classify them as planets. There was never a solid definition of what exactly makes a planet, and so that's what the IAU did. Unfortunately it meant that Pluto didn't make the cut. Because if we had lowered the standards to include Pluto, then it would also include a ton of other bodies and we'd have like 30 planets or something.

Still don't care, I love Pluto too much. They let it in, they have no right to foreclose on its home.

msleeper wrote:
This is an English speaking board. Sorry if that means you can't complete the Captcha.

Also: copy/paste into google gets you the answer in less than 0.2 picoseconds even if you knew nothing about the whole debacle in the first place.

We decided Pluto was a planet in the first place because there was speculation on "Planet X" based on irregularities in Uranus's and Neptune's orbits, which was later corrected by the Voyager 2 mission, AND because it was discovered so early so we didn't know about all these other trans-Neptunian objects.

Yeah, that Captcha made me do a double-take as well.. Perhaps a better anti-spam question that would be less human-unfriendly would be something along the lines of some piece of Portal trivia...
"What does GLaDOS stand for?", "What is a lie?", etc. Something that any Portal player will know, but a bot wouldn't, even with an automatic google search.

Just a thought,
Have a nice day,
~Sidneys1

Player1 wrote:

msleeper wrote:
This is an English speaking board. Sorry if that means you can't complete the Captcha.>

Also: copy/paste into google gets you the answer in less than 0.2 picoseconds even if you knew nothing about the whole debacle in the first place.

Tryed that, it doesn't. At least not Google.de

Like I sayed, I don't want to offend anyone. I just think that it keeps alot of people away from the site and a bigger community with more people means more maps and stuff.
What about http://www.webdesignbeach.com/beachbar/ ... ery-plugin just an idea.
Pretty secure and cool looking.

I'm happy with the current Captcha.

I have an idea: Change the question to something related to this forum, like "Who founded Aperture Science?" or "What is the name of the acress that plays GLaDOS?".

Yes, because spam bots would never think of using Portal related answers to Portal related questions on a Portal related website.

msleeper wrote:
Yes, because spam bots would never think of using Portal related answers to Portal related questions on a Portal related website.

If the spam bots are smart enough to be able to do that, they're smart enough to be able to Google the question and put the result in the box.

The current question is already partially Portal-related.

WinstonSmith wrote:
By the way, I still say Pluto's a planet. Don't care what the IAU says.

Just thought I'd throw that in there.

Pluto is smaller than the moon. Take the moon's feelings in, won't you? If someone was to say that pluto was a planet, but it wasn't, that could really hurt it's feelings.

msleeper wrote:
Yes, because spam bots would never think of using Portal related answers to Portal related questions on a Portal related website.

Dont act like this forum is attacked every single minute by hyper intelligent spambots...
A simple "what equals 3+2" keeps 90% of all spambots away.

Or I could just not change it because I'm happy with the current question.

msleeper wrote:
Or I could just not change it because I'm happy with the current question.

Does Cave Johnson beat Charlie Nash?

hanging_rope wrote:
WinstonSmith wrote:

By the way, I still say Pluto's a planet. Don't care what the IAU says.

Just thought I'd throw that in there.

Pluto is smaller than the moon. Take the moon's feelings in, won't you? If someone was to say that pluto was a planet, but it wasn't, that could really hurt it's feelings.

Right. Except Pluto orbits the Sun, and the Moon...you know...doesn't.

Anyway, yeah, I guess we're done here. Captcha's fine, someone who doesn't understand the question will do the research and 1) be able to join the forum and 2) learn something new.