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Annoying registration questions
« on: October 15, 2011, 02:24:56 AM »
Those questions when registering were annoying.  You ought to change them.

* Not everyone has played Dynasty Warriors.  I had to do various Google searches to find out the best horseman in the game, in the end guessing from various documents I found.
* The questions should accept multiple answers when there is ambiguity.  For example, "honeybee" should be accepted, too - it took a bit for me to figure out that it wanted just "bee".  Similarly, "magenta" instead of "purple".

I understand the need to prove humanity, but don't annoy legitimate users so much. >.< :lame:
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Re: Annoying registration questions
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2011, 03:53:25 PM »
Red Hare?

What registering questions? I don't recall doing that. But it keeps the bots out and it's not the kind of  thing you need to keep doing once your in to avoid captchas. Which is worse.
If bots had access to the forums, they'd spam the shit out of them with their garbage.

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Re: Annoying registration questions
« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2011, 07:09:03 PM »
We had a big bot registering problem a while back. The captcha's eventually became ineffective so I implemented the questions I knew bots could not answer. I gave enough questions that hopefully enough people could generally get, but the Dynasty question has been brought up a few times. I guess it's time to revise it.
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Re: Annoying registration questions
« Reply #3 on: October 15, 2011, 07:30:17 PM »
Easy... just replace the question with...  :blits:

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Re: Annoying registration questions
« Reply #4 on: October 15, 2011, 10:52:09 PM »
I don't remember all of the questions, but I did have a hard time with the color one... I'm colorblind haha
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Re: Annoying registration questions
« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2011, 01:48:48 AM »
I like the question idea to help against bots.  I just think that there could be better questions and better handling of ambiguity (ie, accepting multiple answers for some).

Dynasty Warriors is too relatively obscure to be useful for such questions, but given the content of this board, Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy are clearly fine.  As is the bee question, since I think we'd know that one if we have experience with the NES and SNES.

The "byte" question may be ambiguous, particularly for those for whom French or Spanish is their native language; they may give the correct but less common English answer "octet".

I don't mind the system, and completely understand why.  I just think that the questions could use more thought.

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