2 things: Base and captcha

users
#1

1.
I am new to the field of data base and to LibreBase.
I need to get help (ask questions), but I do not find it easy to do via your websites.
I went to http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/account/signin/?next=/en/ and try to sign in, but get
“Sorry, we don't have this email address in the database”

I thought that I had joined the community and I am now receiving email, but I cannot sign in to "ask" a question.

When I try, I get the response that my email address in not recognized.

I really want to ask a question about Base.

2.
When I tried to send the above message at http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/feedback/, I couldn’t get past the “captcha” thing.

I have no idea what I am supposed to do with the “(Please solve the captcha)” thing! Add, subtract, divide, substring, parse,...?

What am I supposed to do with the two series of numerals?

#2

Hi Bob,

1.
I am new to the field of data base and to LibreBase.
I need to get help (ask questions), but I do not find it easy to do via your websites.
I went to http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/account/signin/?next=/en/ and try to sign in, but get
“Sorry, we don't have this email address in the database”

I thought that I had joined the community and I am now receiving email, but I cannot sign in to "ask" a question.

The signup to the ask.libreoffice forum and the mailing lists are not
the same, I think.

Why not just ask your Base question here on the mailing list instead ?

Alex

#3

Can't help with #1. #2, the "captcha" thing, is a method of foiling machine
generated responses. The captha is shown in a distorted font which computers
have trouble deciphering. Just determine what the letters or numbers are and
enter them in the box that says "enter text here". No calculations are
required.

Tom, list moderator

#4

Thomas Taylor wrote:

2.
When I tried to send the above message at
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/feedback/, I couldn’t get past the “captcha”
thing.

I have no idea what I am supposed to do with the “(Please solve the captcha)”
thing! Add, subtract, divide, substring, parse,...?

What am I supposed to do with the two series of numerals?

Can't help with #1. #2, the "captcha" thing, is a method of foiling machine
generated responses. The captha is shown in a distorted font which computers
have trouble deciphering. Just determine what the letters or numbers are and
enter them in the box that says "enter text here". No calculations are
required.

That isn't what I see when I click on the link (and then click through
the iframe to see the captcha). I see a photograph with some digits in
it, and a string of digits in a distorted font. So there are two strings
of digits as the OP says, and no instrctions on how to use them. The
instructions just say: "Please solve the challenge below, and click the
I'm a Human button to get a confirmation code". But they don't actually
say how to solve the challenge!

#5

Solving the challenge, in my experience with Captchas, is simply typing the two strings of characters (words or numbers) into the input box. Just enter a space to separate the two strings of characters.

The challenge, for me at least, is actually being able to read the provided characters! I guess I am just old. :slight_smile: If you have the same problem, there is a button to push to get another "challenge". I usually have to click that button 6 or 8 times until I get something I find readable.

Hope this helps.

Charles