Thursday, October 27, 2005

Word verifications I'd like to see

I know it's not just me, these word verification words are getting longer and longer and longer. Some aren't so bad, but over all, I think they are getting more and more complex and ever increasingly difficult to read. Here's some examples, some aren't too bad, but some are, and like I said they seem to be getting worse!Who makes these up? An insane monkey with a seasick typewriter? I think it would be just as effective to use simpler words that make a little bit of sense, and can actually be read, like these maybe:
Or, perhaps some internet related acronyms, such as:The purpose of word verification is to prevent machine readers from reading the text and creating spam. These are actually images, not text. Theoretically, the automated readers can't read a picture, so why have them so complex? They could put a picture of a duck, and have you type the word "duck" and it would work the same. I hope the people at blogger read this, and take swift decisive action, because if the word verification keeps getting more and more difficult, bloggers everywhere may unite and revolt!

11 Comments:

Blogger Carnealian said...

I do end up doing the word verification a couple of times on occasion because I can't tell if it's a w or two v's. Soon, we'll be typing sentances.

>rgnnqaqk

October 27, 2005 9:28 AM  
Blogger Snowbear said...

LOL good one
mine was : opvtth

Love the pics

October 27, 2005 9:39 AM  
Blogger Shelley said...

You hit the nail on the head with that one!!!!! I totally agree. My faves are the ones you listed like "Krappy"!!! HEEHEE! Today, mine was: sskhh

Not too bad at all! Ciao!

October 27, 2005 9:43 AM  
Blogger Chris & Cheryl said...

OMG, I totally agree. I had one the other day that was almost 10 letters long. Annoying!

mine was: hijfdhv

Reminds me of when I was learning to type and had to practice the letters repeatedly. Blah!

October 27, 2005 10:50 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The word verifications I have come across have not been very long but some are difficult to read and I have to retype the word. At least it has helped with the spam on my blog.

October 27, 2005 1:15 PM  
Blogger wanbli said...

about the duck - I would probably say bird - fugl - zintkala - Vogel - fugl (på dansk)- my brain sometimes doesn't work like normal persons - so I am going to stick to the verifications - mine was very simple
mmpha

October 27, 2005 2:03 PM  
Blogger Just Me said...

i had one that was 13 letters long yesterday!!

October 27, 2005 3:33 PM  
Blogger Daisy Mae said...

Make my word verification be WTF because that's obviously what I think 80% of my day.

I have the same problem as Carnealian sometimes. G and Q have the same problem of looking alike too. And then you get the ones with r being so close to another letter that you can't tell what it really is. WTF?

Oh, and my word was yzkoz. It took pity on me today.

October 27, 2005 4:29 PM  
Blogger Leila said...

agree:)
(this was mine: dzfahzda)

October 29, 2005 1:03 PM  
Blogger Me said...

Mine have been too bad so far.

This time it was: qzeibe

October 29, 2005 7:59 PM  
Blogger Derek said...

Turns out the computers have been able to read the simpler ones. Even basic slants can be OCR'd with some patience and trial an error.

October 30, 2005 12:30 AM  

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