What's up with the crazy questions for profile edits?

willmore · 2017-02-02, 01:26

I just wanted to change my time zone and I got asked two very strange questions which weren't at all clearly questions I had to answer.

One was about some road biker and when he won his first of a particular race. The other was a simple math question and it wouldn't accept the answer in the most logical form--(2^32-1) is 0xffffffff most logically. But it wanted it in decimal

This looks like some attempt to be a CAPTCHA, but it was just *weird*. It also seemed a very strange place for it. I'm already logged in, why do I need to prove I'm a human to change my time zone?

Dubslow · 2017-02-02, 03:52

The administrator sometimes lets his sense of humor show through in... non-conventional places. I'm not entirely sure what the split is between CAPTCHA and humor, but it's almost certainly some mix of both.

willmore · 2017-02-02, 12:44

@Dubslow, indeed.

2017-02-02, 01:26	#1
willmore Aug 2002 111100₂ Posts	What's up with the crazy questions for profile edits? I just wanted to change my time zone and I got asked two very strange questions which weren't at all clearly questions I had to answer. One was about some road biker and when he won his first of a particular race. The other was a simple math question and it wouldn't accept the answer in the most logical form--(2^32-1) is 0xffffffff most logically. But it wanted it in decimal This looks like some attempt to be a CAPTCHA, but it was just weird. It also seemed a very strange place for it. I'm already logged in, why do I need to prove I'm a human to change my time zone?

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2017-02-02, 03:52	#2
Dubslow Basketry That Evening! "Bunslow the Bold" Jun 2011 40<A<43 -89<O<-88 3×29×83 Posts	The administrator sometimes lets his sense of humor show through in... non-conventional places. I'm not entirely sure what the split is between CAPTCHA and humor, but it's almost certainly some mix of both.

2017-02-02, 12:44	#3
willmore Aug 2002 2²×3×5 Posts	@Dubslow, indeed.