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Originally Posted by Tom  I don't really like the idea of asking questions or picking images, I worry that less web savvy folk might read it and think "What the heck is this? Why is this website asking me a silly question? What is 2+2? Or what year is it? Or pick the elephant." Even if you explain why I still don't think it looks the best, especially for certain types of sites. |
The idea of a Captcha at all isn't particularly pretty. But it's better than your customers or clients getting emails of links to pictures of gigantic black cocks.
I implemented a simple logic test on one of my sites and my own blog (for example
here and
here) and it's almost completely erradicated the amount of filth being sent from my forms.
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Originally Posted by Tom I wonder how an animated gif or flash captcha might work, I haven't seen any of these in action. Surely they would be very hard for a bot to recognize and nearly everyone has flash these days. |
I built a Flash-based Captcha (using ASP classic) a good while back. It was used on one of my friend's old forums and really worked a treat. Feel free to download it
here.
13-09-2007, 05:31 PM
I was thinking of the characters slowly moving up and down in a wave like motion or something that wouldn't be so hard on the eyes. Maybe even slowly animating inverting colour changes or something. 
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