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[Xalor]

Captcha is a anti-spam service, to prevent unwanted bots from signing and up and advertising from auto-form fillers. Re-Captcha is one of the newest services to use Captcha service. It basically gives you two words, slightly hard to read, as an image, and then you write in the letters, then it verifies if it is correct then you get to sign up and the form is submitted, if it is incorrect or unfilled it is marked as incorrect and denied. Re-Captcha is rather annoying and hard to use. The best thing would be to have a math problem randomizer. I would have another section on the form what alternates from 10 or so simple math problems, as 2+2, or 3+2, and makes sure the answer is correct, the other thing would be to find a different captcha program. People often don't get Re-Captcha right, it takes about 2 tries, until you get how it works, since it accepts spaces wierdly. It comes from words from the classic books, and Captcha comes from the word Capture.

[harrison858]

I'd probably have to say that captcha is the best way to prevent spamming applications from spamming registration on forums, spam posting, or even sometimes you may see captcha in business sites when you submit an application or process your payment.

[Veradesigns]

An image displaying a message along with lines or shades that make it hard for a computer to do character recognition.

[stopthewarm]

Well i know what is captcha. I fill one form everyday. You know forums, websites, trying to make money etc. Well we see many different kinds of captcha everyday.
Some are case sensitive and other are not case sensitive. Some are mixtures of numbers and letters and some or alone letters or numbers. Many even have a listen to the captcha feature. You can even refresh the captcha if you can't read it.

[Ash-Bash]

Its an anti-spam tool.

Basicly people have made tools to automatic come on any forum and post a custom message.

They need to register....

However spam bots cannot see Captcha...

[superjavy]

captcha is a huge thing now on myspace when u login or even to add somebody

[Alex Cicala]

A captcha is a verification for the website to know if a human is registering information the that site. Normally consists of an image with numbers or letters and noise so its slightly difficult to read.

[ZettaAIR]

I don't think CAPTCHA is going to last very long. I program called X-rumor is used to do something on forums or something and it can bypass CAPTCHAs somehow.... I predict that there will be a more advanced system used to prevent SPAM from websites and stuff.

[biodiscover]

It's boring but useful.

[gummybear]

It's pretty much everywhere now... but its basically a verification system that a website runs so that they can make sure you're not a bot... you might have seen this on youtube for example, when you've posted a lot of comments repeatedly, it makes you type in these random words... hope that helps