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Is captcha actually effective at preventing spam?
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Is captcha actually effective at preventing spam?
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>>588019
yes
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>it's a "hello i never used pre-captcha 4chan" episode
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>>588019
no

/pol/harbor
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>>588022
It worked good whenever some dumbasses weren't running stupid colored box scripts. But those were pretty funny.
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>>588031
>t. kimmo alm
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>>588019
Yes. It just also happens to fight the users as well.
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>>588019
Yes, just visit any imageboard on the internet that didn't implement a strong captcha.
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absolutely yes

you werent here where every second thread on /b/ was some shady ad for dumb shit. people could spam entire threads with penis enlargement or ponies
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>>589694
I remember those threads.
You can still occasionally find shady ads on /b/. Much less frequent though.
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