Jansos Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Is it just me or are the Captchas on the Alamy site and 'here' becoming increasingly more and more time consuming? They are not quite at a level where they are becoming annoying (I do understand they are needed) but have they not started to become a little too time consuming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 2 minutes ago, Jansos said: Is it just me or are the Captchas on the Alamy site and 'here' becoming increasingly more and more time consuming? They are not quite at a level where they are becoming annoying (I do understand they are needed) but have they not started to become a little too time consuming? No, not just you. So irritating that I really don't want to log in any longer. Many seems misleading - and f.inst. when you should locate traffic signs - I would tick any of the quadrangles with any part of a sign in them - but the system doesn't agree to this, seems only to accept the main parts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 This problem comes and goes. I find it slightly less prevalent in Chrome. At the moment it's gone for me. When it's a pain I just don't bother- it's only a forum after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 I would be nice - as we have a system that relies on us being able to recognise a blurred taxi or shopfront - if that system itself could recognise a taxi or a shopfront. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Futterwithtrees Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 Yep this can be a real pain sometimes. I thought it was just me and I was doing something wrong or needed to change my specs. It is cold comfort to know that others are having the same issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Avpics Posted July 17, 2018 Share Posted July 17, 2018 11 hours ago, spacecadet said: ....- it's only a forum after all. When you're trying to upload some Live News it's an added delay you could well do without, and then you can't get on the forum to moan about it. That's an issue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYCat Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 Wow. I've been passing them pretty easily but I just had one with "roads" that kept putting up new ones as I checked them. Not that it was very clear what they wanted. If there is a bus with a tiny amount of the road it stands on is that a road? I finally closed the window so I could get a new one. it was an easy street signs one but some of them are incredibly unclear. Paulette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 I once had one where I had to click on pics including a gondola - the whole thing was one closeup of a gondola, every box contained the gondola - and I still got it 'wrong' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanRohrer Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 I had to click for street signs. So is the sign post still a part of the sign? If somebody has a finger in the edge of our submitted photos then we need a model release. So is a post a part of the sign? Is the sign small border corner in a segment still a sign? Is that thing way down the road still a sign or an unrecognizable object? I think it took 4 screens to get in here today. Do Alamy submission rules apply to the Captcha images? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niels Quist Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 12 minutes ago, StanRohrer said: I had to click for street signs. So is the sign post still a part of the sign? If somebody has a finger in the edge of our submitted photos then we need a model release. So is a post a part of the sign? Is the sign small border corner in a segment still a sign? Is that thing way down the road still a sign or an unrecognizable object? I think it took 4 screens to get in here today. Do Alamy submission rules apply to the Captcha images? Exactly my thoughts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Thompson Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 I never have to Captcha in, I have about 20 of my most popular tabs saved for each time I open them in Firefox. I just open up Firefox and all my tabs are there and no logging in each time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 13 tries today! I have to admit I lost my patience and began clicking randomly out of sheer frustration....must have got lucky! Those Captcha folks sure do love that grain filter! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 PLEASE LET IT STOP!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ACC Posted July 18, 2018 Share Posted July 18, 2018 6x vehicle and road sign captchas just now to get onto the Forum and I dont think i was doing it wrong. What a pain. 🤬 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbimages Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 I got 21 of the damn things. Every time it took me back to the log in, I clicked to sign in and got more of them......please, please, stop these things from proliferating! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Walker Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 I haven't had a 'Captcha' sign in for months now. Chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Posted July 19, 2018 Share Posted July 19, 2018 I hate these things. This morning, logging into the main site, there was a picture of the back of a bus which took up every single square - clearly a "vehicle", but clicking every square was not the accepted solution. 21 clicks and 2 screens to get into the main Alamy site, then a further two screens and 6 clicks to log into this forum. What I find particularly annoying is that the main site seems to require a new captcha every time you log in, even on the same day. Surely Alamy could set a cookie or something which will last 24 hours to spare the pain of going through this process several times if you end up logging in more than once in any particular day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imageplotter Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 On 7/17/2018 at 22:13, Avpics said: When you're trying to upload some Live News it's an added delay you could well do without, and then you can't get on the forum to moan about it. That's an issue FTP? Eliminates the problem for Live News and is quicker.Unless you mean logging in for changing captions/correcting typos etc? I'd have to agree though in general, the Captcha thing is very annoying. I never used to get it, and suddenly this week, it started with several rounds of blurry bits of 'street' and fuzzy 'street signs' to be identified and constantly asking me to 'please also look at the new pictures'. Chrome, moi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanRohrer Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 I have a new thought. These Captchas are the new Alamy artifical intelegence to check image submission keywording. Are you spamming your images? Your peers will help find you out! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Robinson Posted July 20, 2018 Share Posted July 20, 2018 a: Can someone please explain to Captcha that traffic lights and street lights are not the same thing. b: How much of a vehicle does a square have to contain for the square to contain a vehicle? c: My quickest sign-in today (2 tries) was on my phone in the sun where I couldn't see the pictures and just chose at random. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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