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webrampage.com — Did you notice all those CAPTCHAs? Was it a bad move? Or a good one? Well find out here. Digg isn't just stopping spammers with these CAPTCHAs.

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  • kemp34, on 08/07/2008, -3/+26Terrible move. I am pissed I have to right a captcha at this exact moment...
  • MarkusGarvey, on 08/07/2008, -1/+15this is messed up...you start out with 0 diggs, and it seems you cant get more than one digg...Gary
    Carstensen's comment tracker doesn't register any diggs either... :(
    ...you were reading my mind @13...i was just hunting for something about this when you shouted...
  • th13rteen, on 08/07/2008, -0/+11I know this is totally messed up. I just sent a shout and I had to enter the CATPCHA. That one wasn't there before. I didn't notice it. Looks like theu put it there a few minutes ago. Or what?

    Well Digg should take them off. Its too annoying.
  • kineticworm, on 08/07/2008, -1/+13CAPTCHA is the new FAIL. So...CAPTCHA!

    Now...on to type my CAPTCHA.
  • notque, on 08/07/2008, -0/+15You can't shout any more after the captcha! It doesn't update the captcha, so the shout form crashes. BOOO
    • MarkusGarvey, on 08/07/2008, -1/+6....HISSSS.......(throwing tomato's and other vegetables at computer)...
  • jontalisman, on 08/07/2008, -0/+9This sucks donkey balls.
  • MarkusGarvey, on 08/07/2008, -1/+19ha!...captcha's gone and so is the problem...
  • ladyjusa, on 08/07/2008, -1/+17Looks like the bug has been fixed. NO MORE CAPTCHA!
    • TheEngineer2008, on 08/07/2008, -0/+4I'm still getting a capcha:
      ___________________
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      | THIS SUCKS!!!
      |__________________ |

      Enter the text you see in the image.
      Please allow up to 60 sec for your comment to be saved.


      :-(
  • th13rteen, on 08/07/2008, -0/+8Woah wtf? I can still see the captchas. Its glitchy. Sometimes you see it and sometimes you don't. Don't get too happy they didn't take the captchas off. lol
  • MarkusGarvey, on 08/07/2008, -2/+12it was tinkerbells (jerkimer56) magic bury wand was shorting out...
  • ToeCracker, on 08/07/2008, -2/+10And they buried my story last week as being inaccurate . . .
    • MarkusGarvey, on 08/07/2008, -2/+4actually one of their crew got banned the other day for shouting to the brigadiers to bury subs....#9-5 in the TOS..
      "with the intention of artificially inflating or altering the 'digg count', blog count, comments, or any other Digg service, including by way of creating separate user accounts for the purpose of artificially altering Digg's services; giving or receiving money or other remuneration in exchange for votes; or participating in any other organized effort that in any way artificially alters the results of Digg's services;"
      ...they weren't very happy about that... :0
  • Fangsinmybeard, on 08/07/2008, -0/+13It slows things down or shuts people up. No one wants to comment or share. I bet thousands of accounts were lost due to gateway checking. Digg just got a lot smaller.
  • kactuscrow, on 08/07/2008, -0/+11What a drag.. Sending shouts has lost its luster..
  • basye, on 08/07/2008, -0/+9You know, some of us have to work while watching digg--the CAPTCHA feature slows that down.
  • Mathieugothax, on 08/07/2008, -0/+8You know, in a court, you have to be proven guilty. On the web, you're considered guilty of spamming and you have to prove you're innoncent by entering a captcha. Two worlds, two realities.
    • foreignbodytv, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3and one CAPTCHA...
    • MizSwann, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3wellllllllll - coooome....to The New World Order, plebian.....
  • th13rteen, on 08/07/2008, -1/+6Guys sorry to ruin it for you, but Digg is not taking the CAPTCHAs off. They are testing it and that's why it was buggy. Mathieugothax and some of his friends saw the CAPTCHA a few weeks back.

    Right now, Digg took them off but it will come back on eventually. Enjoy Digg while you can. ;)
    • MarkusGarvey, on 08/07/2008, -1/+4that is really bad news 13....i have seen it from time to time in the last couple of months, a was hoping it was just a periodic check...next thing you know they will roll out the "Digg Gold" option for $19.95 a month with no captcha...Mixx would be my choice for a mass migration...
      • th13rteen, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3Hahah well said. Digg Gold for $20/month. Well I would pass. I'm not paying $120 per year for some stupid CAPTCHA.

        Oh well. Thanks for confirming that you saw this before too.
      • Mathieugothax, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2Man did I laugh when I read that. Digg "Gold". Doesn't that remind you of Kazaa "Gold"? Back in the days where kazaa was THE P2P program and at one point, they started charging for "extra features", for the Gold version. And that's how Kazaa went down, that and spywares.
  • louiebaur, on 08/08/2008, -0/+6I don't know what was up but I did a post on it two weeks ago when I saw it show up early on a sunday morning. I thought i was tripping. Today I was just irritated.
  • barcelona10, on 08/08/2008, -0/+7hold on a sec... what does this mean for the future of Digg?
    • th13rteen, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Well its not going to be as active as now, of course. Like I send less shouts now. We're just too lazy to be entering CAPTCHAs all the time. You gotta admit it.
  • MommaLu, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5Yeah, Digg Captcha's suck big time. Hope that don't keep that going. Can you say ANNOYING!
  • referal, on 08/08/2008, -0/+4Really nice one:)
  • NightVortez, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5I love how it takes an article so long to get to the front page that by the time it's even approaching it's already irrelevant.
  • rhabd0mancer, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5Captchas make the Baby Jesus cry.
  • Cymrubeats, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1Sorry, my comment has nothing to do with the ummm..."content" of this story, but i would like to say i was taken aback at the obvious pride the blogist was taking in his ignorance concerning ron paul (and i'm sure that pride in ignorance reaches much further than this one subject.) That's as far as i got, since they are obviously not worth paying any more attention to thereafter.
  • jstohler, on 08/08/2008, -0/+6And now they're gone.
  • michaelwong38, on 08/08/2008, -0/+6i'm glad there are captchas. sometimes i'm not sure if i'm a human being.
  • mooseontheloose, on 08/08/2008, -0/+5I just had to enter a captcha to enter a captcha!
  • DaviDaviDaviD, on 08/08/2008, -2/+6Nice Story!

    Did you know that Coca-Cola is now offering all sorts of great new flavors? You bet, ever tried lemon tangy? Or the outrageous new sweet orange? Whatever you like, Coca-Cola has a Coke for you, at your local retailer for the same value price of $2.50.

    /sarcasm.
  • SquireCD, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3I haven't seen any captchas, but I hope they come back. It seems there are a lot of bots around here lately...
  • staticfish, on 08/08/2008, -0/+2No craptcha here...
  • The_Ox, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3No need for captchas, that's why digg users have the power to BURY.
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