Craigslist Captcha Is a Joke
As far as I can recall, I've only posted something about Craigslist once and I don't even remember what it was. It's such a hotbed for spammers, I figured why waste time blogging about it. But I just had to post this. It's no wonder we get so much crap from Craigslist.
I was uploading some rental listings onto Craigslist. When I got to the part where you enter the "Captcha" text, as I was hitting the continue button, I noticed a blatant error in what I had typed and what I was supposed to type and low and behold, I got the message to check my email to publish.
Just to make sure, I posted another listing and intentionally entered the incorrect "Captcha" text. You can see below what I was supposed to type and what I actually typed. I was supposed to type in L i q u e s t but I added an extra "s" and then I hit continue. Again it was submitted, I checked my email and published.
What's the point of having "Captcha" if it does not function property. I would not even call this "appeasing." What I would call it is the folks at Craigslist saying "just give 'em something, anything just to make it look like we are really combating spam."
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