So...
NotATether, ETFbitcoin, o_e_l_e_o, LoyceV are all against my concept of a captcha.
Yeah, VPN/Tor user don't want to spend between 30 seconds to 10 minutes to solve CAPTCHA.
IMO it's just a really difficult balance, you want a free and open forum. But you want to control the spammers as much as possible.
Or do you go the other way but no more temp bans for things like that. Using a word spinner you get the boot and that's it. Too harsh? Not sure.
From what i know, it's rare to see spammer got temp ban. So IMO giving temp-ban to spammer should be good start.
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I'm sorry, I don't mean to offend, but how are captchas in each post going to help?
CAPTCHA can block fully automated bot which automatically select thread at random, obtain text from AI (such as chatGPT) and then make a reply using that text. But it's unlikely it'll stop people who copy text manually from website which provide AI service.