Sorry for this rage rant, but those captcha tests after saving your edits infuriate me both so much and so easily.

When I make myself finally do something for the wiki after a week or so of doing nothing, those captcha tests kick in halfway through my work and force me to stop and immediately go to do something else because I'm obviously not wanted there. I know they are there to protect wiki from spam, what's basically lots of edits in short period of time, but sometimes that's exactly what I need to do. And there's nothing more heartwarming than an "intelligent" widget from Google telling you that your computer sends "automated requests you probably don't know about". I feel this thing is doing more harm than good currently.

At first, captcha is always nice. You click the box, it shows green tick, everyone's happy. Then it throws you a test or two. They are usually quite simple. But good luck if you start messing up. Not even that, keeping editing the wiki is enough for the tests to get tougher. Eventually, you'll be doing series of ridiculous tests of ridiculous length. Simply, because you want to edit the wiki.

Also those tests can be pretty unclear. My favourite instruction is to check all boxes with "signs with street names" (translated to English from Slovak). Funny thing is that it doesn't want only signs with street names or any signs with some street name on them. It wants official signs along with all other traffic signs, despite there's no word about traffic signs. I think. I've learned this through trial and error. Fortunately, after that, this is one of the better tests to get.

And now those images itself. Ah, what are those 2 pixels behind trees in the background? You can't tell? Do you think it is a car? If it is a car and you won't check it, you may fail the test, but if you check it and it won't be a car, you may fail it as well. And what about this red car? It's large and obviously a car, but its edges are just poking out to other squares near it. Does those few red pixels count as the car is in that square? Does it not? Is it taken into account and the square can both be or not be checked in order to pass the test? Was that the reason why you failed last test? ???

reCAPTCHA: Easy on Humans, Hard on Bots.
Yeah, of course, definitely. I fully agree.

Last time I experienced pinnacle of what captcha tests can offer. Today it wasn't half bad, but seeing as the tests are getting constantly more difficult despite my best efforts to solve them correctly drove me insane really quickly. Just knowing that it's going to get as annoying as it was last time. And I was passing them! That's what I learned today, that it judges you primarily by how many edits you did recently.

I miss that old simple 2-word captcha verification so much when this new starts being "smart".

I don't expect or want to hear any words of consolation from anyone (nobody cares anyway), I just wanted to say out loud how incredibly annoying this system is to me. Ideally, I'd want it replaced, but that won't happen since GMs don't visit this section of the forums and I haven't asked them directly either. I doubt they would replace it if I did, but who knows, maybe they would.