CAPTCHA to post ...?

[FullOppositeRudder]

This morning I find that we now have to pass a CAPTCHA challenge in order to post to PPRuNE.

Is this a glitch or part of SOP from here on?

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Please enter the six letters or digits that appear in the image opposite. The letters are NOT case sensitive.

[Loose rivets]

If this is the case, they can exclude me from Pprune. I've jumped through enough hoops in 45 years of aviation to put up with this BS.

[Load Toad]

Yup, at least the captcha on PPRUNE is easy to read though - some web sites captcha systems I can not read.



Even more f' annoying if you have posted on two threads quickly & then get told to bloody wait 21 seconds more to re-f'post!

[green granite]

Gentlemen just don't bother to sign out when you leave, I don't and I never see the CAPTCHA. I suspect it may have something to do with the problems last night when it became nearly impossible to get the site to load.

[Loose rivets]

No, it was for every post . . . but it's gone now.

One is calming down from a fizzy, cos these things are of particular annoyance to me. They always seem to pop up when I'm in a hurry - and then present me with sequences with numbers in. I can't touch-type numbers, and thus have to find the light switch or even my specs.

[AnthonyGA]

CAPTCHAs are currently the best practical remedy for spammers on Web sites. The idea is to find a problem that just about any human can solve within a few seconds, but that most computer programs are unable to solve in any amount of time. Recognizing words in a CAPTCHA is hard for computers but relatively easy for people.

Some CAPTCHAs are actually helping to digitize the world's literature. For details, see

What is reCAPTCHA? (http://www.google.com/recaptcha/learnmore)

Every time you solve a reCAPTCHA on a Web site, it helps resolve ambiguous results from an OCR program somewhere, assisting with digitization of text. And you can use this for free on your own Web site if you're getting a lot of spam.

[mike-wsm]

I never seem to see captchas for pprune nowadays. But if you do get one, keep clicking on refresh until an easy one comes by.

[muppetbum]

Appreciate isn't a high priority on an aviation website but captchas without an audio option are a death knell for visually impaired people. Can't log in , can't post . More than mildly irritating

[AnthonyGA]

By all means make life difficult for automated robots - but why make it intrusive for the vast majority of regular users.

Regular users who are already logged in don't see them. At least I never see CAPTCHAs on this forum, but I stay logged in for convenience.

If someone isn't logged in, how can you distinguish between a real person and a spam bot, without a CAPTCHA?