Re: [AGA-mcm] registration

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

Hello Nick,

I am sorry you are having trouble with your registration. In all 
seriousness, it has been a necessary "evil" in keeping the myriad of spam 
robots off our forum, which at the time were auto-registering and sending 
1-10 advertisements per day for a variety of products and services that 
had very little to do with the keeping of aquarium plants, and were 
keeping our almost non-exististant volunteer admin staff busy deleting 
posts and accounts.

I will say that yours has been the first complaint we've had in the many 
months since we implemented the scheme.  We did deliberately try to make 
the test easy; if it looks like it could be aquatic plants, it is.  Most 
of the "not" images were picked to be ridiculously obvious.  Give it one 
more go, and if you're still failing, we'd be happy to manually activate 
your account (reply with your username).

   - Erik


On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Nick wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have to comment on my frustration on the'photo recognition' aspect of 
> your registration.
>
> I don't consider myself an overly stupid person, but after many failed 
> attempts to check the aquatic plants I may have to reconsider.
>
> Is it me, or could it be that many of your low resolution pictures are 
> somewhat ambiguous in nature.
>
> Is that a photo of Echinodorus tenellus, or is it a close up of an 
> untidy corner of someones lawn? That is the kind of question I keep 
> asking myself every time my attempt at registration is rejected.
>
> I am a member of many aquarium forums and this is the first time I have 
> been forced to give up on a registration process.
>
> I really must ask. Is this a cruel joke or are you guys just a bunch of 
> fun loving eccentrics with an overenthusiastic sense of humor.
>
> Hoping it's the latter.
>
> Nick Udovic
>
>

-- 
Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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