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Just Humans

30.05.07 | 1 Comment

JustHumans.com. It’s one of those things you wish you’d thought of first. Just Humans solves the age old problem of form spam. Whereas most solutions require you to try and decipher mixed letters and numbers overlaid on a dodgy background, Just Humans is different. To submit your comment it asks you to click on a certain picture. The creator, Anders Brownworth, puts it forth in slightly better terms;

Click the duck to continue:

To a computer, all of these images are just numbers representing colored pixels but a human can easily recognize the duck within the group. When the user clicks the correct image, the form is submitted. This simple test eliminates the vast majority of form spam without being unnecessarily hard on users.

How simple can you get?! No typing characters into a box, just click to submit. Why didn’t anybody do it before? Plus look at the puppy, how cute.

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