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That's a terrible analogy. Are you saying that once a visitor completes a captcha on your website, they can steal all your stuff? In that case, the problem is w

That's a terrible analogy. Are you saying that once a visitor completes a captcha on your website, they can steal all your stuff? In that case, the problem is with you and your website security.

wastedhours 5y ago
Seems like an apt analogy - adding in friction for the small minority of instances where someone would undertake an action you don't want them to. Not literally "if I don't make someone choose 5 firetrucks out of 9 pictures they're going to steal my stuff".
hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago
> That's a terrible analogy Well, a more apt one would be that someone breaks into your house or car and puts all their litter everywhere so that you have to spend hours or days cleaning. Sometimes I don't get the logic of these spambot creators. Do they honestly believe that creating thousands of fake accounts with links to "hot dating site" in my webshop will help them in any way? These data are completely invisible outside (why would anyone want to present their customer data to the world).
- pjerem 5y ago
  > Well, a more apt one would be that someone breaks into your house [...] and puts all their litter everywhere so that you have to spend hours or days cleaning. wow, this actually happened to a coworker. He waked up one day discovering a broken window and human excrement everywhere. For sure he closes everything now.
- heavyset_go 5y ago
  > Sometimes I don't get the logic of these spambot creators. Do they honestly believe that creating thousands of fake accounts with links to "hot dating site" in my webshop will help them in any way? These data are completely invisible outside (why would anyone want to present their customer data to the world). The goal is link building[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_building
  - AussieWog93 5y ago
    I get these spam links all the time, and a disproportionate number of them are for SEO and similar services addressed to me specifically. I don't think they actually expect the links to be published, so much as they expect the webmaster to read them in their moderation panel.
    - heavyset_go 5y ago
      Truthfully, I think the costs of automating posts is so low that the spammers don't care if they waste some time posting on sites that might require moderator approval. It's easier to let their bots run wild and pay the $0.0012 it costs to spam your site.

That's a terrible analogy. Are you saying that once a visitor completes a captcha on your website, they can steal all your stuff? In that case, the problem is with you and your website security.

wastedhours 5y ago

Seems like an apt analogy - adding in friction for the small minority of instances where someone would undertake an action you don't want them to. Not literally "if I don't make someone choose 5 firetrucks out of 9 pictures they're going to steal my stuff".

hdjjhhvvhga 5y ago

> That's a terrible analogy Well, a more apt one would be that someone breaks into your house or car and puts all their litter everywhere so that you have to spend hours or days cleaning. Sometimes I don't get the logic of these spambot creators. Do they honestly believe that creating thousands of fake accounts with links to "hot dating site" in my webshop will help them in any way? These data are completely invisible outside (why would anyone want to present their customer data to the world).

pjerem 5y ago
> Well, a more apt one would be that someone breaks into your house [...] and puts all their litter everywhere so that you have to spend hours or days cleaning. wow, this actually happened to a coworker. He waked up one day discovering a broken window and human excrement everywhere. For sure he closes everything now.
heavyset_go 5y ago
> Sometimes I don't get the logic of these spambot creators. Do they honestly believe that creating thousands of fake accounts with links to "hot dating site" in my webshop will help them in any way? These data are completely invisible outside (why would anyone want to present their customer data to the world). The goal is link building[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_building https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_building
- AussieWog93 5y ago
  I get these spam links all the time, and a disproportionate number of them are for SEO and similar services addressed to me specifically. I don't think they actually expect the links to be published, so much as they expect the webmaster to read them in their moderation panel.
  - heavyset_go 5y ago
    Truthfully, I think the costs of automating posts is so low that the spammers don't care if they waste some time posting on sites that might require moderator approval. It's easier to let their bots run wild and pay the $0.0012 it costs to spam your site.