Gremlins! - "Join Fedora" captcha is Unreadable

[Clint Savage]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Clint Savage wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> it's a new technology to us, I'd rather try to get it fixed before
> abandoning it.
>
>        -Mike

Oh, I wasn't suggesting abandoning it, I think it's great.  I just
wonder if we could tone it down some.  Sorry if I implied such a
thing, I am excited to see that we're using CAPTCHA.

Clint