Rungta’s Photoblog

Aditya Anand said..

I remember the first time that I had come across this photoblog and had gone through the archives, I had seen a Taj Mahal photo.

Sumedh said..

Nice!

Though my experience of Taj Mahal was pretty unmemorable. That particular day it was so crowded, that I just hated that trip.

I do plan to go again soon, though. Will esp. take care to go on a day when least tourists are expected to be there…

P.S. Heh. I tried to answer YES to your question "Are you a Robot?", and get back "Spammers, robots and aliens not welcome."
Even though I mayn't be, but most people in today's world are monotonous, robot like! :)

Sumedh said..

Ha! BTW I just love "An _____ a day keeps the doctor(and Microsoft) away." one.
I have been incessantly giving wrong answers to see the great questions you have put! :)

Rungta said..

It feels great to see my humanity check getting so much love lately because I did put a lot of thought into making it a pleasant experience. It was hard coming up with questions though, because I had to be sure that people could answer them without having to think twice.

Aditya Anand said..

Sumedh, now that you speak of it even I did something similar earlier today. I was interested to see what message did Rungta have for Spammers, Bots and Aliens.

I thought till yesterday that I had seen all those scripts but today I read something like enter this message without quotes.

I think a system like this would be easy to circumvent if one really wanted to. I simply kept answering no ( The first question was ' Are you a human?, The second was about apple and the last one was 'Are you a robot'. Fortunately the reason this works is because spammers probably don't find it lucrative enough to write something specific for this site. This system, till it works is way better and faster than things like Captchas.

Aditya Anand said..

Questions – Not scripts.

Didn't re–read the whole thing before pressing enter as I was playing with the Humanity Check and wanted to see if it was 'case–specific'. It took my YEs without a glitch. :)

Rungta said..

You're right Aditya, this system would be very easy to circumvent if someone really wanted to but then I could fall back to serving the questions on images (like Abhishek had suggested earlier) rather than easily parseable text which would make it a lot harder for spammers to find a way past.

Rungta said..

It took my YEs without a glitch. :)

:D

Aditya Anand said..

I could fall back to serving the questions on images (like Abhishek had suggested earlier) rather than easily parseable text which would make it a lot harder for spammers to find a way past.

But as long as the number of questions are limited, all it would take for a Spammer is to repeatedly try the same answer like 'no'. Easily prevented by generating Captchas like VariabIe1 operator Variable2=?

Am curious, do you already employ that in your Humanity check? Heh, anyways any of the above mentioned is not required at all. Have kinda dislike them thanks to those crappy captchas from MSN and google. They slow you down.

Nothing like writing an Apple a day keeps the doctor away though.

Aditya Anand said..

Talking about Captchas you guys should find this interesting.

Nag said..

awesome pic…
reminds me of your India Gate pic… it resembles the grandeur.

Varenya said..

Khoob bhalo achchi…

Rungta said..

But as long as the number of questions are limited, all it would take for a Spammer is to repeatedly try the same answer like 'no'.

Yes, but I would add constrains on the check if spam was actually making through.

Easily prevented by generating Captchas like VariabIe1 operator Variable2=?

Yup, and its surprising you haven't yet got one of those questions yet.

Nothing like writing an Apple a day keeps the doctor away though.

You forgot the 'and Microsoft' bit! ;)

Oh and thanks bengali and wannabe bengali.

Aditya Anand said..

You forgot the 'and Microsoft' bit! ;)

Ah doctors and the quacks :D

Yup, and its surprising you haven't yet got one of those questions yet.

Probably have, but I think it's nice that you have probably bounded the numbers. I sure would remember if the system gave me 8703 * 98238 = ?

Yes, but I would add constrains on the check if spam was actually making through.

Constraints, like what? This is getting interesting.

Rungta said..

Constraints like putting the comment for moderation before it can appear if a person gets the answer wrong twice and not allowing any more comments from that IP for the next 24 hours.