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Free Political Irony Games

I try to make it as easy as possible for people to post comments on this blog. Unlike practically all blogs, I don’t require people to create an account, and I allow anonymous postings. The price is that I have to constantly monitor the comments for spam, but I think it is worth it to encourage free conversation.

But for reasons I don’t understand, I’ve been seeing a ton of people signing up for accounts on the blog. Most of these accounts never post anything, and given the names that are being used, I think they are being created by spambots.

So I’m trying something new. To create an account, you have to play a (very simple) game. The game is required only when creating an account, not when posting a comment. The games take less time to play than it takes to answer the typical captcha so it is not a big deal. Besides, you still don’t have to create an account to post comments.

The games are provided by “Are You A Human” (http://areyouahuman.com/). If you want to see what the games look like you can try them on their site, or you can play them here on Political Irony. Make sure you are not logged on and click the “Register” link under “USERS”. Don’t fill anything in, but click the submit button. You can play multiple games using the redo (circular arrow) button.

If this new feature causes any problems, please let me know (you can leave a comment on this post).

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This was written by Iron Knee. Posted on Thursday, July 5, 2012, at 2:14 pm. Filed under Meta. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

11 Comments

  1. tester wrote:

    test

    Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 2:17 pm | Permalink
  2. Tester wrote:

    Whoops. I didn’t see any game. Feel free to delete these two comments.

    Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 2:18 pm | Permalink
  3. Iron Knee wrote:

    The game is only to create an account, not to post a comment.

    Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 2:28 pm | Permalink
  4. Anonymous wrote:

    Very cool

    Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 3:46 pm | Permalink
  5. JamesM wrote:

    Very neat. You may even want to use it for comments.

    Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 6:20 pm | Permalink
  6. Fred Wickham wrote:

    I’m sorry. I went thru the steps a few times and could not successfully install. I like the idea. And playing the game I found out I was very close to being human. I think the game and myself share 99.936% of our DNA.

    Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 6:36 pm | Permalink
  7. Don wrote:

    I’m with Fred. Only missed a couple of times. Perhaps I’m a chimp.

    Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 7:01 pm | Permalink
  8. Dan wrote:

    I played 7 times, parking the car was too easy

    Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 7:21 pm | Permalink
  9. il-08 wrote:

    I didn’t even know you COULD create an account…..

    Friday, July 6, 2012 at 8:01 am | Permalink
  10. Iron Knee wrote:

    The only advantage of creating an account is that you don’t have to type in your name and other info when you make a comment. Certainly not necessary.

    Friday, July 6, 2012 at 11:08 am | Permalink
  11. jonny test wrote:

    test

    Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at 1:26 pm | Permalink

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