You're reading a lot into my reply. The GP's question was "is there any better way to [avoid the captcha] with a single developer?". That's clearly the case. A

You're reading a lot into my reply. The GP's question was "is there any better way to [avoid the captcha] with a single developer?". That's clearly the case. As a trivial example, 4chan could take your $20 and avoid giving you a captcha for 2 years, or charge you $10 for one year. Both are a 2x improvement, if the only goal is to get past the necessary evil of the captcha. But that clearly isn't the goal, that doesn't mean I'm begrudging 4chan their business model, that's something you grabbed out of thin air. why would they not kick the problematic and porn boards to the curb and ban the use of slurs to make room for more friendly advertisers? How would that be a realistic alternative for the "single developer "? The entire selling point of 4chan is that it's a very limited time capsule of the old Internet wild west. What you're describing would be a Reddit or Facebook groups clone. If 4chan became that, nobody would use it. They'd just use Reddit or Facebook groups.