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Tried several times with several captchas. This is the data explorer page I tried to access.

with space between :

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To the non-believers :) :

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System produced on:

Windows 7
Chrome Version 33.0.1750.146

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  • You didn't type the second number?
    – Bart
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 8:05
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    Did you enter all digits? - 44782326888
    – Martin R
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 8:05
  • Normally we dont have to.
    – davidkonrad
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 8:06
  • @davidkonrad normally you have to type the whole including the space!
    – Bala
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 8:09
  • Stop downvoting. I am reporting an error. I have done this 100 times before as you suggest, thats why I make it an issue on meta. Is it so hard to understand?
    – davidkonrad
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 8:15
  • Hmm, strange ... for me the captcha doesn't even show up ...
    – Bart
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 8:19
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    No-repro. Works as expected for me.
    – asheeshr
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 8:27
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    People, please don't close this question as "can no longer be reproduced" just because you can't reproduce it. There is no problem in leaving this open.
    – Bart
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 8:41
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    Could you add the details of the system you're using. Also if you previously only had to enter 1 of the two words that was a bug which may now have been fixed
    – Richard Tingle
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 9:39
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    If I recall correctly the system only actually knows 1. It asks you to give both. The one it knows validates you and the one it doesn't is now know (I think a few different people all have to give the same answer). Given this, a wrong answer is deeply unhelpful but probably not detectable but it can detect no amswer at all
    – Richard Tingle
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 9:50
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    @david what basis have you for believing that? The system is always relevant information. Especially when only certain people can reproduce it
    – Richard Tingle
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 10:03
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    @davidkonrad - No idea what point you're trying to make. I googled "stack exchange data explorer" at first as I didn't notice the link in your question. The google result is an https link. The captcha is blocked by Chrome for data.stackexchange.com as it is an http resource.
    – Martin Smith
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 10:54
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    @davidkonrad - Why wouldn't my answer explain it? Your question states that you often don't fill it in correctly so its quite likely that you failed the Captcha initially presented to you.
    – Martin Smith
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 11:09
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    That's my answer below. I reproduced it by initially getting the challenge wrong,
    – Martin Smith
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 11:23
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    @Martin, as for "the unknown number can be either of the two", I don't think so. This reCAPTCHA thing is heavily based on statistics. When showing you the two captcha's, Google is already confident about one of them, and its confidence about the other might affect how much of an error you can make for that other one. For animuson apparently others already entered the same value for the long number, so typing only that is fine. And the OP often was lucky with just the short number. It seems either the rules have been tightened, or Google is showing more "new" challenges?
    – Arjan
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 15:22

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Reproed here as well

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Note before typing in the correct numbers as above I deliberately typed in wrong ones and submitted. I expected the Captcha to change after the failure and present a new challenge but it didn't.

Maybe the server side expects a new challenge but this isn't refreshed client side?

Clicking the refresh button and trying again with the new challenge it succeeded.

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    Indeed, on meta.stackoverflow.com/captcha it does refresh on error.
    – Arjan
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 10:51
  • @Arjan - And I've used ReCaptcha myself on sites and I'm pretty sure it is supposed to. The last two pictures in the question show the OP tried multiple times for the same captcha as well.
    – Martin Smith
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 10:56
  • Note before typing in the correct numbers as above I deliberately typed in wrong ones and submitted. I expected the Captcha to change after the failure but it didn't. does not help deliberately entering the correct numbers for the first time.
    – davidkonrad
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 11:27
  • Of course you can "reproduce" the error by deliberately doing so. As clarified many times, this is not a bad user behavior problem. This problem is serverside. Thats why I raise the problem on meta. And I think the problem is local, eg northern europe.
    – davidkonrad
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 11:30
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    @davidkonrad, in your question you also typed the wrong answer the first time. It's not enough (anymore) to just type one; try for yourself. I feel Martin pinpointed the problem just fine. (And he's not saying it's your problem. Relax.)
    – Arjan
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 11:33
  • @Arjan, where did I typed the wrong answer? Is 4478 not 4478?
    – davidkonrad
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 11:43
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    @davidkonrad 4478 = 4478 but '2326888' != ''.
    – Martin Smith
    Commented Mar 8, 2014 at 11:48

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