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Message 9592 (16. Jun. 2009 00:13) (Tree)

Sender:	Bernhard
email:	bernhard@adinfinitum.de
Subject:	Change to the forum
Content:	: The reCAPTCHA is a little too hard to read, and the audio was not at all what the words that were written. That's so it can't be read by computer but only by smart roller skaters. And the audio is just a new challenge which has nothing to to with the visual one. : I had t refresh to new words just so that I could read it. Also, is it possible to make it just one word each time instead of two?? Not with reCAPTCHA. It presents one word it knows for sure and another one which hasn't been properly recognized by an OCR program. The first word is used to gain trust in you and the second I like to imagine as payment for the service. Incidentally, we profit from the second challenge too, when we download the scanned books.
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Bernhard: Change to the forum (15. Jun. 2009 22:17)
	Hi all, in order to better keep spammers at bay (and to lessen my workload deleting spam) I have added the reCAPTCHA service to the forum entry form. It makes it slightly less inconvenient to post messages but it also makes it far less likely that you have to endure spam. A CAPTCHA is an acronym für Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. It works by requiring you to decipher a distorted text which an automated OCR program hopefully fails at. One nice twist with reCAPTCHA is that they use this input to help digitize books. Another one is that the site still stay accessible even for blind users since it also can provide audio challenges. I hope reCAPTCHA isn't too hard on you. Otherwise, let me know and we will see what we can do.
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zorg: Change to the forum (15. Jun. 2009 22:35)
	So War again bots is started!!!!! Bots are banned by .... reCAPTCHA bot ? and more time to skate for you, that is cool !!!! ... hey what about Rskating bots? The audio thing is nice too!! cheers : Hi all, : : in order to better keep spammers at bay (and to lessen my workload deleting spam) I have added the reCAPTCHA service to the forum entry form. It makes it slightly less inconvenient to post messages but it also makes it far less likely that you have to endure spam. : : A CAPTCHA is an acronym für Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. It works by requiring you to decipher a distorted text which an automated OCR program hopefully fails at. : : One nice twist with reCAPTCHA is that they use this input to help digitize books. Another one is that the site still stay accessible even for blind users since it also can provide audio challenges. : : I hope reCAPTCHA isn't too hard on you. Otherwise, let me know and we will see what we can do.
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Bernhard: Change to the forum (15. Jun. 2009 23:08)
	: So War again bots is started!!!!! War on bots has started several years ago for the roller skating form. I think I achieved quite a lot with filtering techniques. Without them I couldn't have left for Oz with a clean conscience. ;-) But now reCAPTCHA blows the rest of those evil spam bots to smithereens (hopefully)! : Bots are banned by .... reCAPTCHA bot ? and more time to skate for you, that is cool !!!! To be honest, fighting spam never kept me from skating. Rather from posting. ;-) : ... hey what about Rskating bots? Claudine posted a video of one. : The audio thing is nice too!! Yes, I really liked that, too. Not that I believe there are many blind people visiting this forum but I think they should be able to make the maximum of it.
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Bernhard: Change to the forum (16. Jun. 2009 00:13)
	: The reCAPTCHA is a little too hard to read, and the audio was not at all what the words that were written. That's so it can't be read by computer but only by smart roller skaters. And the audio is just a new challenge which has nothing to to with the visual one. : I had t refresh to new words just so that I could read it. Also, is it possible to make it just one word each time instead of two?? Not with reCAPTCHA. It presents one word it knows for sure and another one which hasn't been properly recognized by an OCR program. The first word is used to gain trust in you and the second I like to imagine as payment for the service. Incidentally, we profit from the second challenge too, when we download the scanned books.
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