"Are You A Human?" to the rescue. Detroit Start-up nixes spambots.

[downtownguy]

With all due respect, Lowell, what do spambots see in DetroitYes?

The typical captcha example they show on the site is pretty much what I see every time I encounter one of the those stupid things -- gibberish! I did the demo 3 times and was successful on 2 [[better than most of my captcha attempts) and was only stymied by putting the golf ball in the hole. This is why I don't golf. Did anybody get that one?

[Lowell]

With all due respect, Lowell, what do spambots see in DetroitYes?

Bots have no idea what DetroitYES is and could care less if they could care. They are mindless programs that seek out message boards and gain entry. The goal is to get an account then post ad links from affiliate accounts their owners set up with advertisers. Newbie and Dimbo click on them and they make money. Or maybe they have have a 'click farm' in India hitting them or another bot clicking them. It's a game of pennies -- million of them.

AreYouAHuman.com will be a real challenge for them as its random movements with a mix of logic make compensatory programing probably impossible. It's not like a captcha that, no matter how hard it maybe to read, at least doesn't move, let alone require a logical solution.