In an effort to reduce the spambots, I'm updating the human verification questions they get asked upon registration. "Dungeons & WHAT?" was too easy for them. Spambots get better and better all the time, and are usually a step ahead of those trying to fight them. They can solve most Catchpas and reCatchpas and the like easily these days, and those that can't can farm them out to rooms of people who do that all day for a few cents per hour.
So, here's the difficulty:
1) It has to be hard enough that a random person whose job it is to sit at a terminal and answer questions like this all day won't know it without looking it up.
2) But it has to be easy enough that a newbie coming along to play D&D for the first time won't be turned away.
3) Bots also automatically run through common words like numbers, colours, etc. and know how to interpret and solve simple puzzles - they can handle "What is the third word in this sentence?" or "What is two plus two?" easily.
Here's what I have so far:
So, here's the difficulty:
1) It has to be hard enough that a random person whose job it is to sit at a terminal and answer questions like this all day won't know it without looking it up.
2) But it has to be easy enough that a newbie coming along to play D&D for the first time won't be turned away.
3) Bots also automatically run through common words like numbers, colours, etc. and know how to interpret and solve simple puzzles - they can handle "What is the third word in this sentence?" or "What is two plus two?" easily.
Here's what I have so far:
