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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Blogger has gone stupid

Recently when commenting i have been confronted by this stupid double password caper.
It's absolutely bonkers. What are these software people doing.
Go back to the original PLEASE.
Or, am i the only one who thinks it's a password to far.

17 comments:

  1. A sign of the times I'm afraid, we are all bombarded with spam these days and the old CAPCHA was probably too easy: sophisticated bots could do it automatically by OCR.
    I'm very familiar with that new one and I almost always get it right first time now, but occasionally it can be difficult - fortunately it does give you a 'Refresh' button to obtain a new pair. You can also ask for an Audio version instead.

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  2. I have you thought of integrating disqus comments in here instead of the standard google one?

    http://disqus.com

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  3. Thanks GeoffC, But is there any need to make some of them so hard to read. I had 3 goes at one comment today.

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  4. Tookie. No, i had never heard of it until now. I will have a look when i get a chance. Thanks.

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  5. Oh God. I blooming well HATE that style of word recognition thing: I hardly EVER get it right.
    Blogger seem too be doing everything possible to p*ss us off: All my comment time stamps are completely wrong and have been for a few weeks now and it is still not resolved.

    Thanks for the heads up Alan
    Alan

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  6. I am not kidding - It just took me seven or eight goes to publish that comment. This is STUPID!

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  7. The issue I have with Blogger is the photo uploading which today seemed to take FOREVER and EVER.......surely it shouldn't be that difficult?
    The word recognition things? I never get it right first time and then seem to go round and round in circles before it 'takes' my comment.
    Let's hope this one is ok - I'm not sure I'll remember what I wrote........right, here goes.....

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  8. The only way to make it hard for OCR-equipped bots is to make it fairly hard for humans too. A pain to be sure.
    As I say it does get a lot easier with practice, I've done hundreds of this particular CAPCHA and very rarely fail on the first attempt now.

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  9. GeoffC,
    They can have 6 passwords for all i care as long as i can read them, which i don't seem to be able to do.
    I suppose it also depends on what screen size you use as well sometimes.
    I am now purposely getting it wrong so that the next group i am given i might find it easier to read.
    There has to be a better way.

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  10. Al, Was that STUPID you put! I couldn't quite read it.

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  11. Hi Laura,
    I doubt that upload speed will have anything to do with blogger but the frustrating bl--dy word thing is doing my head in.

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  12. Indeed there are easier ways. Some now ask a trivial question that any human can answer but bots can't (for English-speaking readers that is).
    Incidentally you don't have to get it wrong deliberately to get a new pair of words, just click the 'Refresh' icon next to the box.

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  13. Thanks Geoffc, I will use that in future instead of banging the table, and see how it goes.

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    1. I have had to book an appointment with the optician to sort this one out. Are Google sponsored by Boots in their 'Blogger' department, I wonder?

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  14. Hi Martin,
    The trouble is that the developers are probably all in the 20’s and havn’t yet had a need for glasses.
    No pun intended but, they need to have another LooK at it.

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  15. I need about 4 attempts to get these correct! I'm just about to try again on this one too!!

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  16. Hi Gibson,
    I have found one way of increasing the odds on getting it right.
    When i have completed my comment i make the page bigger so that i can read the 2 words better.
    It doesn't work every time but it has worked most times.

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