Opened 11 years ago

Closed 11 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#22545 closed Bug (duplicate)

Ticket spam catcher doesn't validate me as human (and does arithmetic wrong)

Reported by: bjb@… Owned by: nobody
Component: *.djangoproject.com Version: 1.6
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

The captcha spam catcher thing told me I'm not human when I gave "0" as the answer to
"seven plus 3 multiplied by zero"
Then I thought perhaps it expected words for the answer and started answering these queries in words.
Then I thought perhaps it expected parens around the addition in the first case, ....

After four answers with different theories as to how the engine does its arithmetic and expects answers, I gave up (and forgot why I was here in the first place).

This complaint will also probably fail ...

Change History (4)

comment:1 by Daniele Procida, 11 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted
Type: UncategorizedBug

comment:2 by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

Component: Documentation*.djangoproject.com
Resolution: duplicate
Status: newclosed

Duplicate of #22067

comment:3 by Russell Keith-Magee, 11 years ago

I guess this is one of the problems when you use math as a CAPTCHA. "Seven plus three multiplied by zero" is 7, *not* zero.

comment:4 by Aymeric Augustin, 11 years ago

It's still more difficult for a human than for a computer :-(

I wish we had a better solution, or fewer than a thousand daily spam attempts.

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