At 8:41 PM +0100 8/29/08, Stut wrote:
So, in essence your statement is assumptive, judgemental and sweeping.
I certainly did not mean it to be taken assumptive or judgmental.
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Holding my hand up now as a lazy developer, the CAPTCHA I have on my
sites is not accessible what with it being simply an image with no
audio alternative. We have plans to switch it to using recaptcha or
implement our own but in terms of priorities it's pretty low for my
2-man team (myself included).
If you ever want to add an audio CAPTCHA, I will provide mine. I have
done significant blind testing to get it approved by blind testers.
But, I say this from one developer to another and not to the general
public. When dealing with another developer, it's much less
problematic to share code because we speak a common language.
You see, I provide free things on my site, such as my drop-down menu,
and I have people daily failing to implement those correctly because
they cannot follow simple directions. I don't want to complicate my
life further without good reason.
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As I see it, I could be wrong, but that's just an example of
"developers" who are not taking the easy way out, but rather trying
to solve the problem by using something other than CAPTCHA, like
the ones I posted earlier.
Yes and no. Wikipedia has its share of problems with spammers, but
they have such a large community of users who are willing and able
to put time into keeping the site clean it works. The same site with
a different type of user profile may not be able to work this way.
As far as it being down to the developer I think you're giving
credit where little is due.
That's the reason why I quoted "developer" -- the developer in this
case IS the user.
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I think we do disagree on a fundamental level. You think we've all
given up because we haveCAPTCHA's, I believe in the innovative
potential of most developers. We're using CAPTCHA's a lot, and we're
doing it because none of us have come up with anything better yet,
but that certainly doesn't mean we've given up trying.
If your site is free to use I would modify your statement to say...
"CAPTCHA's show the world that you care about the quality of the
content on your site without needing to charge for its use, but
remember that we haven't given up trying to find a better way"
Not quite as catchy as yours, but more accurate. If people need to
pay to use your site then the need for CAPTCHA's is reduced but I'd
argue that in some cases they're still needed.
You bring up good points and I'm not so head-strong that I can't
listen and learn.
Is this better?
http://webbytedd.com/aa/assorted-captcha/
Cheers,
tedd
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