[dang]

> The old one says I'm commenting too fast despite a few upvotes

New accounts are rate-limited because of past abuses.

> Twelve attempts later I've solved HN's captcha and created another account so I can comment again.

I'm sorry you went through that. I can't do it in fewer than a dozen attempts, or without screaming, either.

The captcha is a service of Google's and is currently borderline unusable [1]. But this isn't Google's fault so much as that captchas in general are just broken right now. We're using them as minimally as we can. In fact, everywhere the code currently invokes a captcha, it used to refuse to make a new account at all.

We marked your account legit so you won't get sent back to captcha hell.

1. It's telling that the images on their own site don't look anything like the cruel tricks they actually spring on users: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html

[eric_bullington]

>I'm sorry you went through that. I can't do it in fewer than a dozen attempts, or without screaming, either.

I really appreciate that YCombinator found someone with empathy to work in the capacity you do, dang. In general, there's way too little of it in the online world.

[throwaway58]

Thanks! I got frustrated after even a newly created throwaway was immediately unable to post anymore on fiber and posted one more comment (that I had already typed) over 3g. Right now I'm too busy to comment more, but thanks for flagging me as legit.

While on the subject, I might also mention that the guidelines ask me to mail [e-mail] for questions instead of posting here. I would, it's just that:

> Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

> [e-mail]

> Technical details of permanent failure: Message rejected by Google Groups. Please visit http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=18... to review our Bulk Email Senders Guidelines.

For the record, I never sent bulk e-mail to any address or service. It's really a hard reject and not just a push to the spambox. Google doesn't seem to care about individuals hosting their mail at home (usually I end up in spam, something Gmail users never seem to look in).

Not being able to comment normally and then not being allowed to email you because of a third party (which is too monstrously large to complain to) is quite annoying.

[dang]

Weird. I've not seen that before. I'll pass it to kogir.

But the guidelines have been changed for a while to say [e-mail]. Can you try emailing us there?

[ijk]

> 1. It's telling that the images on their own site don't look anything like the cruel tricks they actually spring on users: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html

I'm pretty sure that right now they're just using it to index street addresses, and maybe test some kind of number-recognizing algorithm.