Metal Captcha

Post by ablation » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 2:03 PM UTC

pornel wrote: post #23

// edit: sense of humour failure. I care too much about blocking spam :) Sorry, but this is harder for humans than bots. The logos are quite distinct and not randomly deformed, so it's easy for even a simple image recognition algorithms to tell them apart. And the set is very small (for this problem anything smaller than millions is very small), so it's feasible to manually tag enough images for bots to brute force i…

Post by drzaiusapelord » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

linuxlizard wrote: post #24

deadmik3 wrote: post #11

I guess this would be a good way to keep people that aren't hardcore enough out of my online metal community...

And people above a certain age! ;-)

Post by ionised » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 2:13 PM UTC

midhir wrote: post #21

Noticed a bug. Murderdolls and The Black Dahlia Murder are included as 'metal'.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 2:16 PM UTC

pornel wrote: post #23

// edit: sense of humour failure. I care too much about blocking spam :) Sorry, but this is harder for humans than bots. The logos are quite distinct and not randomly deformed, so it's easy for even a simple image recognition algorithms to tell them apart. And the set is very small (for this problem anything smaller than millions is very small), so it's feasible to manually tag enough images for bots to brute force i…

Post by dysfunction » Tue, Jul 28, 2015, 2:23 PM UTC

Untit1ed wrote: post #28

gagege wrote: post #4

I saw one that was like some curves and lines and it clearly spelled out "dip", but apparently that was wrong! I really want to know what that one was.

Sounds like the Devin Townsend Project (DTP) http://www.devintownsend.com/images/sprites/dtp_logo_links.j... You see the d and the p kinda link together to cross the t, it's quite a neat logo when you think about it.