Determining spambots… or user sexuality
There’s a funny Captcha Mashup coming out of MashCamp (via Monkey Bites). CAPTCHA are those annoying, warped images of words that sites like Ticketmaster make you replicate to prove you’re a human. Well, this one has you choose the three “hot” people out of nine.
I was completely convinced that it worked great, as I correctly picked the three (with a greater than 99% chance of being wrong by simply guessing) hot ones each time. Then I switched to guys. I’m one of those people that thinks he can tell if another man is hot. It turns out that I was wrong. For the life of me, I can’t get it right.
It was definitely noticably harder trying to guess the guys, but I’m thinking that might not be a bad thing!
My wife thinks it’d be easy for girls to pick either the hot guys or girls. Female “hotness” is shoved in our faces via ads, tv, movies far more than the male version.
That’s a good point, Mrs. Bubna. Maybe that’s why the hotcaptcha defaults to women!