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Topic: Why does Minichan have this captcha bullshit for new IDs?
Anonymous A started this discussion 14 years ago#20,160
None of the other BBS forums have it and they don't suffer from spam. I need to use new IDs from time to time and I have differant IPs (home and work's). Can you just lose it please as it does put me off posting when I have to use a new ID.
> CAPTCHAs aren't to stop spam. Any bot now can read it better than a human. CAPTCHAs are just sadism.
They do stop Russian handbag and Viagra spambots.
Anonymous C replied with this 14 years ago, 6 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#328,038
@previous (D)
And great at making DDoS attacks butthurt.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 14 years ago, 21 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#328,040
@previous (C)
If Tc, ghoul and scatchan rarely face attacks & spam then I don't think MC has anything to worry about as it's the least offensive board. And lets be honest, MCs software is feeling a little prehistoric compaired to the other boards.
Killer Lettuce !!iNo3FkiZx joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 3 hours later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#328,079
Lazy
Just stick to one ID
elmo joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 18 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#328,081
why don't you just restore your ID?
Lee O'Nidas !nBpim1wazU replied with this 14 years ago, 17 hours later, 22 hours after the original post[^][v]#328,244
> > CAPTCHAs aren't to stop spam. Any bot now can read it better than a human. CAPTCHAs are just sadism. > > They do stop Russian handbag and Viagra spambots.
Perhaps because they're done manually by poor people.
Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 4 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^][v]#328,287
@328,040 (A)
wrong, furries and hipsters are the most offensive thing on the bbses
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 14 years ago, 22 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#328,489
A free tutorial website, Duolingo, aims to translate the entire web with the help of people starting to learn a new language. It's a project born out of guilt from the man behind one of the most annoying features of web surfing - those online security checks involving random words.
Duolingo hopes to convince millions of people to work for free and thus translate all web content in a matter of years.
It may sound like an ambitious plan but it's not the first time founder Luis von Ahn and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University have enlisted a global workforce to work for nothing.
As a 22-year-old graduate student in 2000, von Ahn invented the Captcha - those distorted images of words and numbers used to sign in to ticketing and social media websites, among others, which users have to decipher to prove they are human.
The software is used by more than 350,000 websites to prevent computer programmes from attacking them with spam. In 2007, von Ahn realised that 200 million Captchas were being typed by people all over the world every day.
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 14 years ago, 8 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#328,537
> I need to use new IDs from time to time
No you don't.
Lee O'Nidas !nBpim1wazU replied with this 14 years ago, 13 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^][v]#328,641