http://www.designinginteractive.com/user-experience/making-captcha-usable/ Usable Web Applications with Web Standards Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:50:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.designinginteractive.com/user-experience/making-captcha-usable/comment-page-1/#comment-169 beth Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:26:53 +0000 http://www.designinginteractive.com/2007/09/16/how-to-make-captcha-usable/#comment-169 <p>I've always said fighting comment spam is the responsibility of the blogger/site owner, and not their commenters or users. Why make interacting with you or your site any more difficult than necessary?</p> I’ve always said fighting comment spam is the responsibility of the blogger/site owner, and not their commenters or users. Why make interacting with you or your site any more difficult than necessary?

]]> http://www.designinginteractive.com/user-experience/making-captcha-usable/comment-page-1/#comment-168 Joe F. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:19:10 +0000 http://www.designinginteractive.com/2007/09/16/how-to-make-captcha-usable/#comment-168 <p>Interesting approach. Not sure how spambots are going to work around this one. Especially if you use a long string for your ID. But, going the simple registration route, if you ensure your site suppots OpenID, this would be no big deal. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't comment, because who needs YET ANOTHER username & password?</p> Interesting approach. Not sure how spambots are going to work around this one. Especially if you use a long string for your ID. But, going the simple registration route, if you ensure your site suppots OpenID, this would be no big deal. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t comment, because who needs YET ANOTHER username & password?

]]> http://www.designinginteractive.com/user-experience/making-captcha-usable/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Danny Sedor Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:55:14 +0000 http://www.designinginteractive.com/2007/09/16/how-to-make-captcha-usable/#comment-17 <p>While I find the use of CAPTCHA's to be a pain and I have often had to try 2, maybe 3 times to get the correct code from the jumbled image, I also think that the hidden form field will have its own set of problems and be circumvented rather quickly by determined spammers. I would propose a simple registration for the website you wish to blog/comment on. Once registered you can set your browser to auto-populate the information on each subsequent visit. The layer of security is still there. The user only has to be slightly inconvenienced once (during the initial visit), and the developer/admin does not have to continue to monitor the hidden field to see if the obstacle has been overcome.</p> While I find the use of CAPTCHA’s to be a pain and I have often had to try 2, maybe 3 times to get the correct code from the jumbled image, I also think that the hidden form field will have its own set of problems and be circumvented rather quickly by determined spammers.
I would propose a simple registration for the website you wish to blog/comment on. Once registered you can set your browser to auto-populate the information on each subsequent visit.
The layer of security is still there. The user only has to be slightly inconvenienced once (during the initial visit), and the developer/admin does not have to continue to monitor the hidden field to see if the obstacle has been overcome.

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