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Re:TextCAPTCHA: 180 million simple logic questions by darinpantley on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @03:47PM (#1891739)
What if one of your fans created a simple bot specifically designed to answer your admittedly easy questions?
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Re:TextCAPTCHA: 180 million simple logic questions by lotharbot on Wednesday November 10, 2010 @06:06PM (#1892134)
Then he would be a douchebag... and probably a huge moron, too.

Who creates a bot specifically to overcome the CAPTCHA on a forum for a 15 year old video game with very little traffic? We're not really a significant target; I only have to ban about one spambot per week. There's a tremendously low ROI from spambots on our forum, I can't imagine it'd be worth anyone's time to even attempt to incorporate it into their CAPTCHA-breaking bot.

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