> I suspect that most of the time it trips up bots who have no emotional experiences whatsoever.
I'll bite: maybe it's good at identifying obedient drones and letting them through :)
It trips up the normies in my life often enough that I suspect being technically inclined is actually a net advantage because it makes you quick to detect the problem and quick to apply workarounds. Those advantages are significant enough to outweigh even the cost of the semi-regular dance where I try to protect myself and Google jerks my chain.
> Have you considered
The fact that I phrased my proposal as a tradeoff should have strongly hinted that I did, in fact, consider.
> Wouldn't that remove any real gains from being vague with tips & tricks?
One bit of information -- locked vs not -- is hardly the same as disclosing the inner workings, or even the information inputs, of the classifier, and smart botters have access to that bit of information anyway because they've built a gaslight detector by leveraging their legions of diverse bots and endless supply of dirt cheap human labor.
Gaslighting humans is really bad. A minimal courtesy would only cost a sliver of efficacy, and ReCAPTCHA still rejects it. That decision earns it the bad will directed its way.
I'll bite: maybe it's good at identifying obedient drones and letting them through :)
It trips up the normies in my life often enough that I suspect being technically inclined is actually a net advantage because it makes you quick to detect the problem and quick to apply workarounds. Those advantages are significant enough to outweigh even the cost of the semi-regular dance where I try to protect myself and Google jerks my chain.
> Have you considered
The fact that I phrased my proposal as a tradeoff should have strongly hinted that I did, in fact, consider.
> Wouldn't that remove any real gains from being vague with tips & tricks?
One bit of information -- locked vs not -- is hardly the same as disclosing the inner workings, or even the information inputs, of the classifier, and smart botters have access to that bit of information anyway because they've built a gaslight detector by leveraging their legions of diverse bots and endless supply of dirt cheap human labor.
Gaslighting humans is really bad. A minimal courtesy would only cost a sliver of efficacy, and ReCAPTCHA still rejects it. That decision earns it the bad will directed its way.