Captcha and search

sharkey · Aug 30, 2012

Can you turn off Captcha for logged in users. I had to go through more than 5 of those things to do a simple search. Maybe it's been addressed but honestly I didn't feel like straining my mind trying to figure out what the blurry or cut off word was to do another search.

P.S. In case you missed it I hate Captcha.

Here's an actual example from this site. Anyone who can tell me what it says gets 100 brownie points.

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pfries · Aug 30, 2012

barkedi

I hate it to but I do understand it, I tend to hit the refresh button untill one of them jumps out at me as readable...

ATM · Aug 30, 2012

Agreed. I quit using the search function on this site because Captcha is not worth trying to decipher.

I would have done a search to see if this topic had been brought up before, but... you know... :lol:

thebigsd · Aug 30, 2012

Barkedi? I don't know maybe it says darkjedi

I use tapatalk on my phone and face no such annoying images when I use the search function. Don't know if it's an option for you, but I have found that I like posting from my phone more than from my computer.

sharkey · Aug 31, 2012

Barkedi was easy. There is a second word though. What is that one?

DarkJedi LOL!

As far as the cell idea, my screen is too small. It has a slide out keypad which is nice but also a touchscreen which I hate. I refuse to get a newer phone which is weird because I'm super techy on everything except cellphones.

I miss being able to dial a number tactically (can't feel buttons on glass) and yes I know I could use voice dial but ugggggh.

Current phone is a LG

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My all time favorite cellphone was like the one below, all silver with a monochrome display. It did have internet though, that's always been a requirement.

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carsontech · Aug 31, 2012

You can use search engines to search websites. I use Google's "site:" operator to search for keywords within certain websites:

https://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&p=adv_operators&answer=136861

Here are some examples of searching for keywords within forum.opencarry.org using Google's "site:" operator:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Aforum.opencarry.org+Captcha+and+search

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Aforum.opencarry.org+%22Captcha+and+search%22

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Aforum.opencarry.org+open+carry+an+ar-15

rscottie · Sep 2, 2012

Danged if you do, danged if you don't

If you try and use the search feature and cannot read the squigglys, you end up posting a question and everyone tells you that you should have searched first as it has been covered.

Did I mention that I too hate the Captcha thingy?

Tawnos · Sep 7, 2012

sharkey said:
Barkedi was easy. There is a second word though. What is that one?

The second word... is unimportant. It's a "recaptcha". One of the words is generated by the software to see if you're a human. The second is a scan from a book that is being converted to text. Those scans are distributed so that people can solve them.

Either way, I think turning off the captcha for logged in users would be a great idea, since the captcha makes the search box on the top right useless.

sharkey · Sep 8, 2012

Tawnos said:
The second word... is unimportant. It's a "recaptcha". One of the words is generated by the software to see if you're a human. The second is a scan from a book that is being converted to text. Those scans are distributed so that people can solve them.

Either way, I think turning off the captcha for logged in users would be a great idea, since the captcha makes the search box on the top right useless.

I think it's pretty important since I get "The string you entered for the image verification did not match what was displayed." if I don't enter the cut-off word.

And to add insult to injury I had to refresh multiple times to get a cut-off word to test this. All the first ones were crystal clear. :banghead:

ETA. I read about re-captcha and decided to test again. Now I've screwed google and OCR by intentionally falsifying an answer. I left the cut-off one blank the first time (or maybe I just messed up the real challenge word) but this time just entered the wrong word.

Now google will think march is maroh since it worked.

You were right.

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sharkey · Sep 8, 2012

I used captcha as my search term when I did my test and look what I found!

I was wondering why there was captcha on search. And now I know why registered users have to put up with it.

The irony of course is captcha caused me to create an unnecessary thread since it was such a pain to search.

John Pierce said:
I added that because we were having problems with registered users (possibly with a grudge against the forum) doing repeated searches to slow down / bring down the database.

John

Tawnos · Sep 8, 2012

sharkey said:
I think it's pretty important since I get "The string you entered for the image verification did not match what was displayed." if I don't enter the cut-off word.

And to add insult to injury I had to refresh multiple times to get a cut-off word to test this. All the first ones were crystal clear. :banghead:

ETA. I read about re-captcha and decided to test again. Now I've screwed google and OCR by intentionally falsifying an answer. I left the cut-off one blank the first time (or maybe I just messed up the real challenge word) but this time just entered the wrong word.

Now google will think march is maroh since it worked.

You were right.

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Don't worry, you won't screw it up too badly. If I were designing that algorithm it would use statistics to determine the correct answer, and take into account accents (for those who bother) on letters versus just the plain letter.

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