Opticraft Community
Discussion forum => Legacy => Archives => General Discussion => Topic started by: Tree Frog on April 21, 2012, 05:11:49 pm
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I read several threads about the voting page but didn't see this topic.
On the Opticraft voting page, I enter my name and for two of the sites I enter a Capthca. However, everytime I am transferred to the voting site and I have to enter a Captcha again. I assume it was supposed to be sent over automatically (otherwise what's the point of entering it on Opticraft).
I'm using IE 8. Is there a way to avoid this? (I'll try it on Firefox as soon as I can vote again but wanted to see if this is a known issue).
(Argh - I thought I was on the Support thread when I posted - sorry)
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Same here, i think its just both sites......and EEEEWWW IE8 lol I'm on chrome, but yeah it bugs me so bad lol
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Okay, here is how the voting works for me (on Firefox):
I enter the Capthca
Another widow opens up
I close it
I voted!
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Okay, here is how the voting works for me (on Firefox):
I enter the Capthca
Another widow opens up
I close it
I voted!
youre not really voting then, youre just going to the voting page, IE youre cheating the system lol, you have to actually click vote on the new page
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The reason why this is happening is because since optical put the captchas onto the voting pages, the voting sites were under the suspicion that we were 'circumventing' and bypassing the captcha (this is what happened with Minecraftservers.net). They were treating our macros as though it was some sort of a bot that entered in the captcha information.
The captcha is a type of process that is primarily meant to keep automated bots away, so that the votes statistics aren't obscenely skewed from the rest of the servers' votes (because some people prefer 'favouritism' towards their own server and like to be kept at the top of the list, which is an unfair advantage and keeps other servers from being noticed more often).
Our primary focus was only to keep the captcha conveniently located on our site, but that did not agree with the rest of the voting sites for some odd reason (still yet to be explained).
XtremeTop100 changed how they do their captchas (which is not exactly Captcha), so that's not really an issue at this point.
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Okay, here is how the voting works for me (on Firefox):
I enter the Capthca
Another widow opens up
I close it
I voted!
youre not really voting then, youre just going to the voting page, IE youre cheating the system lol, you have to actually click vote on the new page
So I am not actually voting?
Okay, here is how the voting works for me (on Firefox):
I enter the Capthca
Another widow opens up
I close it
I voted!
youre not really voting then, youre just going to the voting page, IE youre cheating the system lol, you have to actually click vote on the new page
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Yeah you need to do BOTH sites' capatchas to actually vote, going to that page doesnt count as a vote, if you notice those pages ask you "are you sure you want to vote?" thats because you havent submitted anything
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Oh.
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we're aware of the problems with the voting page, but they seem to be uncorrectable.
it was a good experiment while it lasted.
i personally recommend using the old vote page ( http://www.opticraft.net/index.php/page,Vote.html ) for the time being.
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I think it's two of the sites have a second captcha, this is normal. Not a problem for me, I'm on Safari. I've always gotten my diamonds and it seems to count my vote. I have heard of people not getting their diamonds, but I even don't spell my name case sensitive--and haven't had any issues. I wonder if they're skipping the second captcha.
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When you enter the captchas(lol) you only have to do it ONCE, when the second website pops up with aother captcha just ignore it you don't need to do it twice for the same one.
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Guys? That's the point.
That you need to type both codes. The first one is for the site, to recognize that you are not a bot, and the second is for the better rank of the server to the catalog.
If you dotn type both, you cheat.
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I recognise the need for captchas to stop bots on the actual voting websites but why is it needed on opticraft.net?
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I recognise the need for captchas to stop bots on the actual voting websites but why is it needed on opticraft.net?
Here lol
The reason why this is happening is because since optical put the captchas onto the voting pages, the voting sites were under the suspicion that we were 'circumventing' and bypassing the captcha (this is what happened with Minecraftservers.net). They were treating our macros as though it was some sort of a bot that entered in the captcha information.
The captcha is a type of process that is primarily meant to keep automated bots away, so that the votes statistics aren't obscenely skewed from the rest of the servers' votes (because some people prefer 'favouritism' towards their own server and like to be kept at the top of the list, which is an unfair advantage and keeps other servers from being noticed more often).
Our primary focus was only to keep the captcha conveniently located on our site, but that did not agree with the rest of the voting sites for some odd reason (still yet to be explained).
XtremeTop100 changed how they do their captchas (which is not exactly Captcha), so that's not really an issue at this point.
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I recognise the need for captchas to stop bots on the actual voting websites but why is it needed on opticraft.net?
Here lol
The reason why this is happening is because since optical put the captchas onto the voting pages, the voting sites were under the suspicion that we were 'circumventing' and bypassing the captcha (this is what happened with Minecraftservers.net). They were treating our macros as though it was some sort of a bot that entered in the captcha information.
The captcha is a type of process that is primarily meant to keep automated bots away, so that the votes statistics aren't obscenely skewed from the rest of the servers' votes (because some people prefer 'favouritism' towards their own server and like to be kept at the top of the list, which is an unfair advantage and keeps other servers from being noticed more often).
Our primary focus was only to keep the captcha conveniently located on our site, but that did not agree with the rest of the voting sites for some odd reason (still yet to be explained).
XtremeTop100 changed how they do their captchas (which is not exactly Captcha), so that's not really an issue at this point.
This doesn't explain it -.-
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These captchas used to work. I have been meaning to remove them for awhile now, but haven't got around to it. Will see if i can be rid of them tonight.
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These captchas used to work. I have been meaning to remove them for awhile now, but haven't got around to it. Will see if i can be rid of them tonight.
Thanks for removing them, it's all working fine now.
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I dotn really care of removing the captchas.
I have found once I voted for another server, that for each choice, you should press a capthca for the site and one for the site. So, the server gets the full support and the players the diamonds without possibility to cheat.
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The interesting thing is I've never had to enter the captcha on the Opticraft site. I just click the continue button and it jumps me to the "true" captcha, which I enter and vote. I've never NOT gotten my diamonds and I've never NOT voted for the server. Everyone happy, and I only had to enter the captcha once per vote.
The only thing I truly hate is the 3rd one, because it doesn't tell you if you've successfully voted or not. After you enter the captcha it just dumps you to the list of servers. Not something Opti can fix tho, it's a problem with the list.
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These captchas used to work. I have been meaning to remove them for awhile now, but haven't got around to it. Will see if i can be rid of them tonight.
Optical, thanks for fixing this!
On a related note that popup asking us to vote and enter our usernames.... when I use it I then have to enter my user name again. Any chance of fixing that? Or removing the popup? Diamonds are enough incentive for me, and that non-functional popup is driving me nuts... maybe it's just me. Any way just a suggestion that I think would improve the user experience on the site.
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Thanks for changing this Optical! Much easier now (at least for me). ;D
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Thanks for changing this Optical! Much easier now (at least for me). ;D
Yes, its now much MUCH easier now. No need to waste any precious time on those CAPTCHA's
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Thanks optical! ;D
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It was never a problem in the first place, you could type anything into the first captchas and it would work ( except nothing didnt work) it was the following page that was important :) But still it's shaved 2 seconds of my voting time and made alot of people happy it seems :)