You may want to change the confirmation code, it was very hard to read, with the upper/lowercase, all different colors and lines going vertically and horizontally through the whole picture. I don't have very good eyes, so it took me a few tries to get the code right. Why can't the confirmation code just be a black and white picture with text on it?

There are computer programmes available that would be able to recognise such a simple image as you suggest, make the verification useless, so it has to be a complicated image. It's pretty much the same with any image verification system. Also, if you do have trouble with the image, it did say on the registration page:

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If you are visually impaired or cannot otherwise read this code please contact the Administrator for help.

Megadude wrote:
There are computer programmes available that would be able to recognise such a simple image as you suggest, make the verification useless, so it has to be a complicated image. It's pretty much the same with any image verification system. Also, if you do have trouble with the image, it did say on the registration page:

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If you are visually impaired or cannot otherwise read this code please contact the Administrator for help.

It isn't pretty much the same with any image verification system. Most are much simpler than this one. But that is just my opinion with registration in general.

Megadude wrote:
"The companion toilet cannot speak, however it can take your crap."

lol is that new? thats hilarious!

also. but yeah, i hate spam-bots. as far as i'm concerned good websites should require DNA verification.

rellikpd wrote:
As far as i'm concerned good websites should require DNA verification.

I sure hope this is a joke.
Just imagine : if that is the case, not only your DNA would be known in the whole world (how "Big Brotherish"), but cracking the batabase of any server using this system means that just anyone could access your DNA and do whatever they want with it.

Hyakkidouran wrote:
I sure hope this is a joke.

a joke? no. an over exaggeration? yeah, maybe, a little. but not much. now maybe not go as far as to require DNA, BUT: the anonymity of the internet is why it is going to hell in a handbasket, people get on here and do/create such attrocities to each other that they would NEVER do in real life, now sometimes this is fine/great, cuz it is an outlet to allow said person to release tensions that they might not otherwise have an outlet for. BUT: i also think of all the hate groups that spawn here, and terroist, and rapes, and stuff (Just watch Dateline NBC: To Catch a Predator) and that is only a SMALLLLLL portion of the internet population. imagine how big the problem really is? If people ~KNEW~ that they might otherwise be responsible for their actions, then the spam, hate, violence might drop down some.
i mean its getting bad. and the truth is Computers, and the Internet are the way of the future. and if we don't PROTECT our future.... where are we?

But Lastly, the "Oh i'm worried about hackers" thing is kinda old/boring. yeah there are hackers, and yeah they can get my info. but thats true, ANYWHERE, and in anytime, there have always been "hackers" just they were called something else: Thieves. they can just as easily hack your bank, and steal you info there, but i'm not about to pull my money out of the back for fear of hackers.

ok, i just woke up, and i guess my brain was ready to fart. so. there ya go.
Love you. Hyakkidouran :-p

rellikpd wrote:
If people ~KNEW~ that they might otherwise be responsible for their actions, then the spam, hate, violence might drop down some.

I see that you're living in USA, I don't know how things works there, but here in France, try to download a large quantity of illegal software, make child pornography, rasism or terrorism on the internet, and you get wasted in a matter of weeks. There is NO anonymity on the Internet, it's all about time. You can hide yourself behing firewalls, proxies, zombie computers and such, but at the end, you always let something somewhere that can reveal your identity (a least your IP address). Unless you're your own ISP, you can't be anonymous on the Internet, the only way to be almost entirely anonymous, is to steal the Internet connection of someone else, but again, your computer could be identified with it's MAC address (hardware) if you're really unlucky.

gulfy32 wrote:
You may want to change the confirmation code, it was very hard to read,

I'd rather not have spambots, and as megadude said, forum bots can and have figured out simpler CAPTCHA's (such as phpbb's default one).

Plus nowadays, there's people paid for solving captchas all day long.. so.. it better have to be complicated.

Or a different verification method.

shrug

What if people didn't know who that was? The text works, because you have to be able to read to use a forum.

alright then use one of a portal object.... because, afterall this is a portal themed forum

Locking this thread. If you don't like the CAPTCHA than you can go elsewhere. Keeping out spambots is way more important to me than having someone register just so they can bitch about it.

Honestly you only have to look at it once when you are registering so I can't see why the hell it matters at all.