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Human or Bot?

by Ruth Folger Weiss on January 24th, 2011

You gotta LOL!

Just trying to do the right thing and checking the page ranking of clients. I log in, and am summarily stopped. Nothing doing before I successfully copy the hieroglyphics squashed in this tiny box below.

Despite myself, my heart beats a little faster; I’m stymied by a tricky squiggle that looks like a stylized Seven, but I’m just not sure.

I’m starting to wonder why I’m having such difficulty…ostensibly this stuff is easy enough for any Human, or they would be a Bot, wouldn’t they?

With trepidation I submit my best attempt at humanity. Enter

I fail. This Bot is relegated to the trash heap of humanity, as the following appears:

ERROR: You submitted a wrong anti-bot code from the verification image on the previous page. Please make sure to submit a correct code to verify that you are a human, but not a bot.

Please click here to go back and try again.

Oh, no! Not me…I’m going elsewhere. This Bot can take no more abuse!

From → Technology

One Comment
  1. Deborah Massa permalink

    Great post! I have been there many times. It’s oddly intimidating! I always wait with baited breath to see if I got it right.

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