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Oct 26, 2010 10:12 | #1

I've been lurking on the forum for a while now, and thought I'd register and start contributing. I also hope that now that I'm registered I won't have to enter captcha to search the forums.

I almost gave up trying to register. The captcha here is ridiculously hard to read. It probably took me almost 10 tries to register--and that's with clicking "refresh image" numerous times because they were just so ridiculously hard to read.

I'm an IT Consultant, and am active on many forums. I've never encountered a more anti-human captcha then what you guys have here.

Anyhow, I made it in... it was really frustrating... but I made it! Just thought I'd share my experience.

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Joe Ravenstein

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Oct 26, 2010 11:18 | #2

Welcome to the forum. I have encountered tough captchas too and had to refresh multiple times before giving up in disgust and decide they don't really want me to register and look elsewhere for the information I seek.

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Oct 26, 2010 11:33 as a reply to @ Joe Ravenstein's post | #3

Same with me. I barely managed to find one I could read after multiple refreshes, and I got a lot of them wrong in the process.

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asysin2leads

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Oct 26, 2010 12:24 as a reply to @ AntonLargiader's post | #4

You're not the only one who has commented on this, and yet, we still get spammers. Nothing is 100% effective. Maybe it is tough to read to keep the riff raff out of here.

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NinetyEight

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Oct 26, 2010 13:21 | #5

You've just passed the first initiation test, wait and see what you have to do to get the key to the executive washroom! :-)

Welcome to the forums.

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Oct 26, 2010 13:41 | #6

Sorry about the difficulty but yet you are now here, welcome!
Hard CAPTCHA does prevent robots and that is why it is so. We do get some spammers but those are human, and they can get past verification.

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asysin2leads

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Oct 26, 2010 14:59 | #7

NinetyEight wrote in post #11168897

You've just passed the first initiation test, wait and see what you have to do to get the key to the executive washroom.

Wait..........WHAT?!? Why is this the first I'm hearing of this? DANGIT!

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Oct 26, 2010 15:48 | #8

asysin2leads wrote in post #11169481

Wait..........WHAT?!? Why is this the first I'm hearing of this? DANGIT!

trust me, you don't want that key.

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Oct 26, 2010 16:31 | #9

welcome!

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Oct 26, 2010 16:43 | #10

gee, and I thought it was my colorblindness that made registering here so difficult! Glad I'm not the only one!!!!

Welcome to POTN.

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