Success/failure feedback isn't feasible as it would transform the problem into a hashcash problem. What is feasible is adding one more character which would be a checksum of the rest, of course this would mess up sometimes...
On Wednesday 07 May 2008 02:39, MyTwoCents wrote: > I was going to just post this on my flog (which I did) but decided that > since I've no idea if any devs read it, I want to be certain that it gets > SOME actual notice by developer types and thus posted it here also > > I've been taking a bit of time lately to check in on 0.7 again and have > been trying out FMS. I have to say that while the idea is a good one, has > a few things that need to be addressed. Specifically the process of > announcing new identities has problems. > > 1) The capcha images themselves have absolutely GOT to be changed. > Because: "You must have at least 1 identity created and have received the > SSK keypair for it from Freenet before setting trust.", I cannot post > messages yet, I have been able to read a few, including one: > > Subject: Re: current CAPTCHAs suck > From: The Seeker at cI~w2hrvvyUa1E6PhJ9j5cCoG1xmxSooi7Nez4V2Gd4 > Date: Thu, 01 May 08 21:31:52 -0000 > Message-ID: > <D307C15C-56CD-4CC4-9822-3EAF1D0CAC8F at cIw2hrvvyUa1E6PhJ9j5cCoG1xmxSooi7Nez4 > V2Gd4> > > That expresses the opinion that the captchas are more likely to be solved > by a program than a human. > > Having spent a few hours trying in vain to read the damn things, I have to > say that I wouldn't be surprized if that were true. Of course, I also > think that they were specifically designed to make life difficult for > people with vision impairments. > > The images need to be something that an actual human will have little to no > trouble reading them. Unfortunately, the graphic abortions that are in use > now are apparently impossible for me to read, since I've been "solving" > (not that I know if they're 'solved' or just wrong.) them for the better > part of a week now and have yet to get my identity announced. > > Which brings me to #2. > > How about some feedback? > > Specifically, when I "solve" a captcha, how about telling me if I got it > right or not? My thought, present captchas one at a time. Allow user to > fill in and submit. If incorrect, TELL THE USER!!!, then present them with > a new one. If it's correct, again TELL THE USER!!! then present them with > a new one. > > This business of sitting here going nearly blind trying to read faint, > almost invisible characters is bad enough, not even knowing if I actually > got one right is liable to make somebody homicidal. There's absolutely > ZERO reason for this to be a fargin guessing game! > > Frankly, if I ever get my hands on the > absolute-brain-dead-moron-studying-to-be-an-idiot-and-failing-miserably > that decided to use that kind of damn-near-invisible-characters-image I'm > going to print out 10,000 pages of them on plywood sheeds and make him eat > them while I beat him to death with my monitor! > > Can you tell I'm more than just casually frustrated here? Good! > > WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE FIX THE DAMNED CAPTCHAS ON FMS?!? > > The preceeding was written while frustrated and angry and then posted > anyway to make a point. > > -- > My public keys can be found on my freenet site: > SSK at TEx6TiaPeszpV4AFw3ToutDb49EPAgM/mytwocents/62//m2ckey.html > (*NOTE* you must be running freenet for this link to be usefull) > and on public keyservers. Key-Id: 0x92769D7E > Fingerprint: 2F07D586C8D4EEA732711338CFEF46E592769D7E > I can be reached either by the NiM form on the freesite or by > Email: m2c AT nym.panta-rhei.eu.org > Frost: MyTwoCents at Z+59LNK9NhMvxewYggENU4Ww50s On the 0.5 Freenet board > > > _______________________________________________ > Support mailing list > Support at freenetproject.org > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support > Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support > Or mailto:support-request at freenetproject.org?subject=unsubscribe > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20080507/489d70a5/attachment.pgp>
