Thanks. That's good enough IMO.
On Aug 10, 2012, at 4:06 PM, Thane Sherrington <[email protected]> wrote: > At 04:44 PM 10/08/2012, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: >> If you don't mind sharing your letter, I'd do the same thing. This needs to >> change. > > Here's my current letter. It probably needs work, but I think it gets the > point across. > > T > > Hi Guys, > I really appreciate your site, as I know the effort that goes into > creating and keeping a site going. I do have one complaint, though. Your > use of captcha for your registration is really frustrating. I understand the > importance of blocking bots, but it took me almost five minutes to get > registered because of the complexity of your captcha. I had to refresh the > image five to ten times on each attempt and even then it took me four > attempts to get the thing spelled right (and of course, each time the screen > refreshed, I had to re-enter my password, making the entire thing even more > irritating). I even tried the audio captcha, but frankly, I can't even tell > what language the people are speaking, let alone hazard a guess at what they > are saying. > You have great content here, and I really enjoy it, but you must know > you're driving people away from your site. I'm extremely computer savvy (30 > years of programming/technical work), and I almost gave up. I'm willing to > bet a lot of people with less experience or patience just give up. > There are other, better options to block bots. Here are a couple > pages with alternatives: > http://www.getelastic.com/6-captcha-alternatives-to-improve-conversion/ > > www.securitywatch.pcmag.com/none/298093-are-you-human-captcha-alternative-aims-to-outsmart-computers-not-humans > > Thanks for your time, and hopefully by changing your registration > system to something more human friendly, you'll get even more registrations > on your site. > > Sincerely, > > Thane Sherrington > Computer Connection, Ltd. > > > > > > >> On Aug 10, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Thane Sherrington >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > At 03:47 PM 10/08/2012, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: >> >> I don't see why not. I joined a site last night that worked just as you >> >> state. That's why we should be bitching and moaning. >> > >> > I'm going to start sending a letter to the support for every website that >> > uses captcha and see if I can get this to change. >> > >> > In case anyone here is using captcha. >> > >> > http://www.getelastic.com/3-more-alternatives-to-captcha/ >> > http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=pogue-8-alternatives-to-hated-captcha >> > http://www.getelastic.com/6-captcha-alternatives-to-improve-conversion/ >> > >> > I especially like the tic tac toe one, which is about all I did during >> > grade 9 math class. :) >> > >> > T >> > > >
