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How do you ban bots with out implementing an arcane, clunky, painful, expensive manual system? PS: your answer isn't allowed to be captcha.

• __david__ 13y ago
  You don't. I'd much rather suffer through a captcha than have the tickets/reservations sell out in seconds.
  • Fuzzwah 13y ago
    Here's the thing though: you've got two people who are eagerly waiting for the purchase / booking of something to become available. One of them is going to do it all manually. The 2nd person has a bot to do all the form filling in leg work but will manually solve the captcha. Who wins?
  • enraged_camel 13y ago
    Yeah, pretty much this. PAX is a huge, widely popular event. It has an entire community built around it. I suspect that the vast majority of people would not mind filling in a captcha if it means they will have a much better chance of hanging out with friends they made in previous years' PAXs.
  • mischov 13y ago
    Perhaps the reason your answer is not allowed to be "captcha" is that there are numerous services that provide manual captcha answers for bots.