Gremlins! - "Join Fedora" captcha is Unreadable

[Clint Savage]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Ian Weller wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 09:32:42AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
>> > At present there are no known problems, can you get them to send a screen
>> > shot of the capcha our way?
>> >
>> Here's seven fairly unreadable ones, out of a random sample of about
>> 40-50 refreshes.
>>
>> http://ianweller.fedorapeople.org/captcha/
>>
>
> Pooh, this is an opinion one, I can read each of those without issue.
> We'll have to see what options we have.
>
>        -Mike

I don't think it's an opinion one as much as what a particular eye can
see.  In my case, I can read 'most' of them with little to no effort,
but there were at least 3 that I had to squint or move closer to read.
 I've had perfect vision all of my life.  What I don't understand is
the value of having colored boxes that make it extremely difficult for
the eyes to focus on the letters.

BTW, I understand what a captcha is and its intended purpose, but I
would argue that this is only one step of many for preventing computer
bots to invade the fedora project.  Mitigation is the goal here, I
don't think it's possible to eliminate all bots, but it is possible to
eliminate a few potential contributors because of something simple
like this getting in the way.

Cheers,

Clint