For those of you who didn't already know, reCAPTCHA 2 is used to discover words in documents that a computer could not correctly analyze.
Example: A book is scanned, and the computer can't make out the word "Gulliver". That word goes into a reCAPTCHA, and after x amount of users type the same string, the computer knows that the word is whatever that string is.
Because that's the case, the computer doesn't know if you typed the word correctly or not, which is what the other word is for. This is a word that they know already, so they can verify that you are correctly typing the word.
Note: The word they know is easily distinguishable, as it usually contains a block/streak of another color, and the section of the font where the blob is will be white instead of black.
So my question is, for those of you who already knew this, do you type the correct word in, or do you type something else, in hope that it appears in the text?
I personally type the correct word, as I see no reason to not support text being made digital. It's a worthy cause in my eyes.
One of my friends, however, always types the "F word", and another one of my friends types it wrong, as he feels other users may, in the hope that the incorrect word/phrase appears in some literature. (An example being not including semi-colons, periods, or hyphens, or typing the wrong number/letter if it could be mistaken by some.)
(I made the mistake of sharing this with them; if not for me they wouldn't know the truth of reCAPTCHA 2.) Perhaps I shouldn't have told them. Heck, I probably shouldn't be sharing it with some of the trouble-makers here, but it's open knowledge that everyone has access to, so oh well. Besides, if they wanted the system to be as close to fool-proof as possible, they shouldn't have disclosed the information about reCAPTCHA in the first place.
-Dave
