Captcha Issues?

[pretend-mulling.livejournal.com]

Okay, so after reading one of the previous posts on here about how FFDN is purging stories because of an aggressive group of organized prudes (EEK!), I tried to log into my account.

Five times I tried. Five times I was told the captcha was wrong.

Um... Que? How can anyone get those captchas wrong? They're four distinct letters; even if you had to use the audio, I still can't imagine anyone having too much difficulty figuring it out the first time.

I checked my stories and they're still there, with no negative reviews or flags or anything (never have I been more glad to fly under the radar than now). So I can rule that particular issue out. And also, I know my login. It was correct, and the site said I'd entered the captcha incorrectly; I'm pretty sure if it had been my login or my password, it would have come up. The only other thing I can think of is that I haven't updated my stories for a few months, due to college and my hard drive dying and then having to wait six weeks for the OS discs to come my way, but considering the number of deadfics on the site, I can't bring myself to believe that's the issue, either.

I've emailed support, but is anyone else having this problem? And is there a way around it?

ETA: Okay, it let me log in after a bit. *breathes deep* Phew. But still... FFDNet is getting curiouser and curiouser.

Comments

[brellegenana.livejournal.com]

I had this issue yesterday, but signed in no problems on a different computer today. Pretty sure it is a system issue, not a user issue!

[pretend-mulling.livejournal.com]

Oh good! It let me log in after a bit, too. Still, it was weird and (after reading that post about people's accounts and stories being deleted because of group-organized reporting) panic-inducing.

[dannylionthe1st.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I don't think it's one group doing it. I, personally, think that they decided that it's been 10 years. Time to reinforce the rules again. :-/

[yamiangie.livejournal.com]

Capatcha is just a bitch that way sometimes half the time i can't tell what case a letter is

[kagenoneko-maat.livejournal.com]

I so agree.

Actually, there was a bot that was able to get a 90% accuracy rate on doing those, which is how accurate a human is. However, that loop hole got fixed.

[evalentine99.livejournal.com]

Can be caused if you are using firefox, but I thought they had the issue fixed.