I was researching an NHibernate problem today and after googling, I landed here. Typical response: “search the forums”. GRRRR…ok, so I hit the search page, entered my criteria and hit search. D’oh! I need to fill out the CAPTCHA section?!? WTF? I’m searching for cryin’ out loud!
Ok, not only was I annoyed at the fact they needed it to begin with, what the hell kind of design puts the entry box and the image so far apart? I ended up try about 5 times before I found one I could actually read and enter correctly.
Someone please explain why in the hell they’d need CAPTCHA on a search form?
I would guess, but it is probably that search is expensive, and they had a DoS using that?
Yea, someone else mentioned DoS as well.
I think I was just frustrated
because all I wanted to do was search. Can you imagine if Google required
entering some verification code before searching?