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Discussion in 'Suggestions & Bugs' started by grandy12, Jan 31, 2017.

  1. grandy12

    grandy12 Your first time is always over so quickly, isn't it?

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    It asked me to write "who is the president" and I had to write Obama, even though Trump already took over.
     
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  2. Biigoh

    Biigoh Primordial Tanuki Moderator

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  3. tehelgee

    tehelgee The stern gaze of justice. Administrator

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    Fixed.
     
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  4. Student of Zelretch

    Student of Zelretch Put the ice back on my lake. Moderator

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    But it's still inaccurate, it has that orange thing and not the REAL president. See me in my press room? it should be juuust to the left....
     
  5. january1may

    january1may Versed in the lewd.

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    For what it's worth, when I was registering here a few months ago, I originally entered Putin, who of course is (and was) the president of my country.
    (I did realize the intended answer, and entered it on the second try.)

    Maybe, in the light of the recent rule 8, the captcha should also be changed to something that does not refer to current politics? Not really sure what would be appropriate, however.
     
  6. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    Given that QQ is by intention and realization an international forum, it may well be better to make a CAPTCHA that isn't oriented around one country.
     
  7. Vindictus

    Vindictus Experienced.

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    True, but to correct that issue, we'd need to come up with some kind of... Universal question?

    Or, no, it would probably be better to have a database of questions assigned on a basis of where the login is traced to... So a Russian gets a question that a Russian would know the answer to, a Canadian gets a question that a Canadian would know the answer too, and so on.
     
  8. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    Or you could pick something stupid and simple, like "What is two plus two?"

    (Or actually implement reCAPTCHA or something like that, but that would take work.)
     
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  9. january1may

    january1may Versed in the lewd.

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    That's a nice idea, but it's probably too complicated.

    Not sure how to make a universal question, though, other than using simple arithmetic or something (ninja-ed on that, but this is actually used in private messaging on CCF, and I think I've seen something similar on other forums).
     
  10. Student of Zelretch

    Student of Zelretch Put the ice back on my lake. Moderator

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    Simple question that everyone (should) know: what is the chemical formula of water?
     
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  11. Vindictus

    Vindictus Experienced.

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    Hotel Twenty, duh.

    ('Hotel' is the military code word for H according to Google, and Twenty = 20 is pretty self explanatory IMO.)

    EDIT: There's no 'Transparent' color on here, huh?
     
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  12. alethiophile

    alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher Administrator

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    Yes there is.
     
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  13. Vindictus

    Vindictus Experienced.

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    But I used [color = transparent]. It did nothing...

    Bah, bloody formatting.

    No spaces, huh...
     
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  14. UrsaTempest

    UrsaTempest Yuri Fanatic, Archivist

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    Obviously, the question should be: What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?
     
  15. Valette-Serafina

    Valette-Serafina Shameless Shadow

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    I think that's even less likely to lead to an agreed-upon answer.
     
  16. Seru

    Seru Lodissian Cross

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    Guys. Guys. Hide a secret word in the rules by making them all lowercase except the letters of that word.

    "What is the secret word in the rules"

    Force them to read the fuckers.
     
  17. aabbcc

    aabbcc Well worn.

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    1.- Select a random word from the ToS
    2.- ask the user how many times that word appears.
    3.- see how you never get new members on QQ.
     
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  18. Vindictus

    Vindictus Experienced.

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    But that would be easy as fuck to work around.

    Just have a program scan the rules for capital letters and print them out as it comes to them.

    The trickiest part would be setting the bot up to read the rules page, and that can be gotten around by just copy-pasting the rules to a .txt file and having the bot read from that instead.
     
  19. wayne82444

    wayne82444 Experienced.

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    What is the internet for?

    Answer: Porn

    I feel this question is both universal, and in the spirit of QQ. Also it is easy to google if by some chance you don't know the answer.
     
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  20. Nuit

    Nuit L'immortale Capo

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