Let’s play Pictionary!
Remember when I was complaining about being unable to read Yahoo Mail’s verification image a few weeks ago?
Looks like I’m not alone getting frustrated with this trend of adding Captchas to every booking form you fill in or comment you want to leave on someone’s blog. Seth finds himself fighting with the Ticketmaster site, trying to guess their awful captcha!
How user-unfriendly can a site get? Keeping in mind that sites like these have as main goal to take bookings. This type of mindboggling image can’t be helping their conversion and would be enough to convince me to book my tickets elsewhere, if possible.
Michael, from figby.com, also points out an idiotic registration captcha. “If you want users to sign up, please don’t use a CAPTCHA system in your site unless it’s really easy for ordinary people to read without pulling the graphic into Photoshop for sharpening and enlargement. If you don’t want users to sign up, you could just remove the registration page rather than torturing people with one of these MENSA-level CAPTCHAs.”
February 20th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
It says “musician”, I think.
February 21st, 2006 at 7:44 pm
I’ve also become annoyed with the captcha system and have gotten a few wrong. The one above is horrible. They aren’t very effective since they fool humans, too!
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:27 pm
Not to mention the usability problems associated with Captchas as they discriminate against blind people surfing the web.
What about “What is this sound?”
November 15th, 2006 at 5:43 pm
aaaaarggggggghhhhhhh i’ve got a headache
December 1st, 2006 at 6:28 am
Salut!
I’m trying to get tickets to a show here in Vancouver, and honestly, I’m considering flat-out forgetting about it because getting tickets is such a hassle! It’s like gambling! And I’m not good at it. The worst part is they just made it more annoying by adding captchas, and I just went through 2 I couldn’t read. Not as bad as that one, though, yikes. You should see me squinting, mumbling “muuusiiimm…..nnnn..oooo nnn? musinnn..ton?”