Campaigners roll out political-correctness Voight-Kampff CAPTCHAs

Re: Obligatory

Captcha: "Describe in single words only the good things that come into your mind about your mother."

Response: Server shot to pieces

Conclusion: We're guessing that this one was a bot. Though it might have been someone sick of trying to decipher illegiable captchas.

Re: And at www.godhatesfags.com ...

What does God have against cigarettes? Isn't Heaven big enough to have a smoking room?

Re: thought police

As a person belonging to a couple of minorities ( maybe not so much minorities in London though : gay and born and raised abroad ) I find the concept appalling.

I was born with enough common sense to know that once I walk through the door and enter the outside world some people will like me and some will dislike me for one reason or another, and the vast majority will ignore me. The same happens to everybody else. I am sorry for the few ones who cannot deal with this simple fact of life.

Most people, anyway, can. From what I see, these sort of thoughts are generally children of brains belonging to "normal" non intelligent people. Think of Harriet Harman for example, it doesn't get much worse than that.

They really believe that by telling you what to think, you will end up thinking it. Has it ever worked on anybody on here? Or do you get a little bit more annoyed every time, towards the people they want you to like, and the messengers themselves?

Just a thought...

Re: "popular but sometimes irritating challenges"

Not too popular with site designers either, come to that; but it's less irritating for the site owner (the person who's paying) than being deluged with auto-spam.

How about "Alexander Lukashenko has changed the Belorussian constitution so that he can be president for life" - another question but less clear cut. Whilst hitting gays with sticks sticks is fairly clearly wrong, other questions are not so.

Re: So the only people able to see/respond to a website using this 'technology'

So our test telling robots and humans apart doesn't work you say ??? No problem we just redefine what we mean by human to whatever person or bot passes our new test.

Bit like the old joke about how many Microsoft engineers it takes to change a lightbulb: Answer, none, Ballmer has just declared darkness to be an industry standard.

Re: "a test for human empathy"

Thing is that any psychopath with a moderate level of intelligence would know what the "correct" expected answer would be, and be able to give it if it was in their interest to do so, even if it didn't represent their true opinion.

Matter of fact, psychopaths are well-known for their ability to manipulate people in general- such a test would only work if it was able to detect the true, underlying emotional response, probably via physiological means- pretty much like the Voight-Kampff test, to be honest.

Re: On the plus side..

I prefer to think of them printed on 40 grit sandpaper for that full "sailing round Cape Horn"[1] effect.

[1] Guarantees a rough passage.