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Re:You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA by nitrogen on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @12:52AM (#20161869)
The spam I see is trying to add little bits of pagerank all over the place.
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Re:You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA by dorgo on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @01:50AM (#20162082)
What about the wikipedia solution for this: rel="nofollow" ?
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Re:You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA by JoshTriplett on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @03:10AM (#20162415)
The spammers don't care; they spam anyway.
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Re:You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA by luckylion on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @03:46AM (#20162561)
That also scales only if you don't customize. A low-value backlink that will usually be removed in the near future isn't worth an hour or two of a developer's time.
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