Pkchukiss – Reality Wine

I used to be a fan of CAPTCHA tests. You know those images with twisty words and numbers that appear and require you to type in the words and numbers to prove that you are not an automated machine out to flood the website?

|
Sample Captchas

I used to have them too, until I realized that everybody was having problems getting past those mysteriously contorted figures.

Since then, the CAPTCHA plug-in for my blog has laid in there along with my plan for world domination in their corner of the cobwebs: sadly relegated. I knew that unless it was improved on, it will make life difficult for all the nice people out there whom want to comment on my blog (I know many of you still don’t, but that’s beside the point.)

Now, after reading a post by Mark from Weblog Tools Collection that is mostly disapproving of the image Frankensteins, I am totally convinced that CAPTCHAs actually hinders commenting, (or registration, if your site happens to be using it).

You could be typing furiously on a comment box, but when you reach over to hit the “Post” button, and the entire system blanks out because you mis-typed a character in the CAPTCHA. Odds are the most you are going to just give up and close the window.

While there is no easy solution to curbing those automated spam advertisements, or account sign-ups, if you aim to be an all-inclusive service provider, you have everything to gain from dropping the cumbersome thing.

Saves you the headache from all those support questions, because you will automatically take it down sometime in the future anyway, like I did.

Filed under: General