Name: Card Match Visual Confirmation (tentative)
Description: An alternative visual confirmation based on "matching cards" rather than recognizing letters and numbers that seem to get increasingly difficult to identify. :oP
Demo: Here
To Do
- Clean up code, make more efficient
- Make more intuitive, improve directions
Hi, I'm a n00b to this forum and to modding in general. I wanted to put this mod out there to get some feedback on the concept to see if it's worth putting out a "final" version. I basically modded just the usercp_confirm.php file except for the text I added/changed on the registration page.
I think the advantage to my system is it doesn't rely on bots "reading" characters like we do. Instead, it takes advantage of the fact that we can match concepts of items. We can see two different cows and recognize them both as cows, two different hats, shoes, etc. whereas I believe it'd be a lot more difficult to create a bot that does so.
So far the disadvantage is that it's not quite intuitive or simple as reading a set of characters and typing them. Also for increased effectiveness, the installer would have to create their own image library so not everyone uses the same cows, chairs, etc. Each site would then be unique and pretty unlikely for a bot to be able to crawl the web and be able to spam multiple boards. Then again, that sounds like a lot of work for installation.
Example:
In this case, the confirmation code would be: A8E4F9
... but hopefully you were able to figure that out without me telling you. :o\