The value of an HN post or comment that people actually see is so much higher than the value of a CAPTCHA-solve that there's no point in even talking about this.
The value of an HN post or comment that people actually see is so much higher than the value of a CAPTCHA-solve that there's no point in even talking about this.
Totally. Captcha should be thought of as rate limiting, not anti-spam.
And HN already has rate-limiting, at least for newer accounts.
This would prevent people from reading HN via a custom RSS, like I do.