Human Verification Questions

[Red Hot Mama]

I'd like to come up with some Human Verification Questions that are fun, unique, cute, clever, and of course easy enough that anyone (that isn't a bot) will be able to answer it.

Any ideas? :3080:

[Autumn]

It's a good idea in theory, but you have to consider that the www is made up of a helluva lot of not English/ESL speaking people. What us mere mortals might think is cute and funny could be totally misinterpreted by others

[Red Hot Mama]

It's a good idea in theory, but you have to consider that the www is made up of a helluva lot of not English/ESL speaking people. What us mere mortals might think is cute and funny could be totally misinterpreted by others

I know... :3078: That's why I am having a hard time coming up with questions other than math problems.

[iowadawg]

I would go with nice human questions and answers.
And not worry about those that can not read or understand english.

Q: Where does beef come from?
A: Cows

[Zap]

I'm beginning to think that captcha forms are useless.

I read an article that was pretty disheartening.
The article stated that spammers are somehow passing captcha forms on to human beings via spyware for the humans to solve for them. The idea is that they force popups on the user and there are captcha forms within the popups that are "borrowed" in real time from legit sites. The human provides the answer and that answer is forwarded on to the legit site.

It sucks, really.

[iowadawg]

Have not seen those.
Smart in a way, find naive web users to answer your questions.

[Red Hot Mama]

:3085: And they probably do it for 2 cents a popup. And they think they are going to get rich doing it.

[Zap]

CAPTCHA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Human solvers
CAPTCHA is vulnerable to a relay attack that uses humans to solve the puzzles. One approach involves relaying the puzzles to a group of human operators who can solve CAPTCHAs. In this scheme, a computer fills out a form and when it reaches a CAPTCHA, it gives the CAPTCHA to the human operator to solve.

Another variation of this technique involves copying the CAPTCHA images and using them as CAPTCHAs for a high-traffic site owned by the attacker. With enough traffic, the attacker can get a solution to the CAPTCHA puzzle in time to relay it back to the target site. In October 2007, a piece of malware appeared in the wild which enticed users to solve CAPTCHAs in order to see progressively further into a series of striptease images

[briguy]

I'd like to come up with some Human Verification Questions that are fun, unique, cute, clever, and of course easy enough that anyone (that isn't a bot) will be able to answer it.

Any ideas? :3080:

How about "spell your name backwards"?

[iowadawg]

Too open a question, as then anyone could enter anything.

[Halobitt]

You've got to hand it to those clever spammers though. They keep coming up with ever more inventive ways to spam, scam and be general nuisances.

[briguy]

How about "spell your name backwards"?

Well I was asked this question when I crossed the border..he asked me to spell my last name backwards! So I figured not a bad idea for a captcha!

I also seen some like iowadawg mention but 3 parts something like this

Q: Where does beef come from?
A: Cows
B: Zenith
C: Bedposts

or even more suggestions for answers but each visit have the order change randomly?

[Colleen]

Well I was asked this question when I crossed the border..he asked me to spell my last name backwards! So I figured not a bad idea for a captcha!

Yeah but you'd have no idea who the person is to know their name to provide a pre-set question and answer, which is how it has to be...

The question and answer pre-exist, so that would not work in a form.

[Red Hot Mama]

But you could ask them to spell something backworks... That's not a bad idea.

Q: Spell "Colleen" backwards. A: neelloc

[briguy]

Yeah but you'd have no idea who the person is to know their name to provide a pre-set question and answer, which is how it has to be...

The question and answer pre-exist, so that would not work in a form.

Not a programmer (1) question from Captcha..."What is your first name"...visitor types in name..then a program assigns a value to each keystroke and stores it.

(2) question from Captcha..."Spell Your first name backwards"..visitor types in name backwards..then the program "check" each value in reverse order and if anyway of the value don't match..the computer ask question no (2) again..so on.. 3 strikes the person out!

[Rhiannon]

What do you get from chooks

1..allout disease
2..eggs
3..ice cream

If there are a lot of non-english speaking countries maybe have a google language translater on the page as well or a link to it??

[wizard]

How about "Type yes if you are a human" or else just press the button below!

[Red Hot Mama]

How about "Type yes if you are a human" or else just press the button below!

Hahahaha!! I really like that one! :3076: