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Re:Clickcha - click the biggest/smallest number for CAPTCHA by oscardelben on Thursday May 27, 2010 @05:30AM (#1383129)
I'd like to combine this with akismet. Bots will be happy with a 2% rate but I'll be more happy than them with 98% less comments to check in the spam folder
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Re:Clickcha - click the biggest/smallest number for CAPTCHA by Groxx on Thursday May 27, 2010 @05:31AM (#1383132)
2% success rate against bots does not equal 98% fewer bot posts. Just 50x more traffic.
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Re:Clickcha - click the biggest/smallest number for CAPTCHA by est on Thursday May 27, 2010 @05:43AM (#1383154)
> Just 50x more traffic.

50x traffic is too obvious to ban :)

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