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CAPTCHA's without an answer :-(

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Ranjith
from hyderabad |

CAPTCHA's, though helpful to the webmasters do irritate the users a lot, especially when they are unreadable or are in a format that can't be translated to unformatted text like subscipt, superscript notations, special characters not available on the keyboard or in the worst case images. And that was what happened to me just a few minutes ago. And here is the proof:

I do understand that many of you who haven't experienced similar things wouldn't believe me for sure. All that I can say to convince you'll is that I don't have the skills to make people believe in me. Undecided

Have you'll come across such CAPTCHA's in the due course of commenting on blogs or else where. If yes, where was it and what was the difficulty involved in it: formatted text, foreign language, image or something else....

For those who haven't had a similar experience, do you believe in what has been said above ? SealedSurprised

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Hemal Shah
from Mumbai |

It is difficult if I am doing it through mobile. I still believe it is good irrespective of the fact that it is a Pain in the A. These days you have mathematical CAPTCHA, where you are asked to enter a simple Arithmetical calculations... these are effective too I guess, but I am unsure how effective they are to stay put on spams.

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

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Tanishq
from Mumbai |

I know of one issue though - Blank Captha(s), happens often due to Adblocker! :)

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

The captcha I posted in the thread description is a perfectly valid captcha! Foot in mouth Probably at that time, I felt that I had to type in the second image as the answer. Laughing

SloWord the Author Playwright Blogger
from the Tundra |

Capthcas originated in ancient satanic rituals. The use of highly stylized symbols were representative of the devil's coded messages.

They should be banned, as they are against my cultural beliefs.

Fairy Princess
from Delhi |

"satanic rituals" SurprisedSurprisedSurprised

"against my cultural beliefs" Undecided

Nikhil
from Thane |

The solution is a service which replaces traditional captcha with a user friendly game but cannot digitise books Tongue out

See this

Ranjith
from hyderabad |

I came across such game captchas earlier too. But I don't find them being widely used. Undecided

The Sorcerer
from Mumbai |

I use maths capcha for the forums