Computer: Security: CAPTCHA
Elitist Capcha   (+11)  [vote for, against]
"Completely Automated Public Intelligence test to tell idiots and geniuses Apart."

It is a capcha program whose challenge is a multiple choice.

It will give you 4 different option, you need to choose the right one. (all is scrambled a bit to prevent bots as well from guessing)

You can also have different varying levels of difficulty.

One question may be like... 1+3 = ?

but some pages will require harder answers (e.g. maths questions you find in exams).

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The test doesn't have to be about maths, it can be anything! Like history. (e.g. registration to a history forum, forces you to find out the name of a particular president of USA)
-- mofosyne, Jul 28 2010

This may in fact be a good way to quality control usership. What kind of test would hb have?
-- rcarty, Jul 28 2010


maybe a test on how to bake a croissant?
-- mofosyne, Jul 28 2010


English-language sites, for example, might test you on rules of capitalization, punctuation, and so on -- but that would exclude some otherwise good posts, as illustrated by this idea.

//What kind of test would hb have?// If this were implemented at the HB (and I don't think it should be) the test would certainly be a quiz on the marked-f0r-deletion categories).
-- mouseposture, Jul 29 2010


...karaoke capchas...
-- DrWorm, Jul 29 2010


The general spirit of what you're advocating was baked (perhaps overbaked) back in the day as the newsgroup alt.hack
-- LoriZ, Jul 29 2010


Maybe we can use this to determine who has the mental capacity to vote in federal elections...
-- Cedar Park, Jul 29 2010


I was expecting a captcha the displays words found exclusively in Victorian prose.
-- Cuit_au_Four, Aug 03 2010


No, in an obscure and hard-to-enter character set such as ogham or cuneiform, shirley?
-- pocmloc, Aug 03 2010


And for 4chan, it would be if you could "triforce"... (No idea how to write it :/ )
-- mofosyne, Jul 11 2014



random, halfbakery