[sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.

[Dale Glass]

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:20:24AM -0500, Argent Stonecutter wrote:
> On 03-Oct-2007, at 08:36, Dale Glass wrote:
> >Now that it's pretty much impossible to set land for sale  
> >accidentally,
> >why do we need to stop bots from buying land?
> 
> Because bots distort the land market, were largely responsible for  
> starting the huge bubble in land prices last year, and put people who  
> are not running bots (that is, almost everyone) at a huge  
> disadvantage. Preventing bots from buying land would level the  
> playing field.

You will still have land bots.

It's just that instead of an autonomous one, there will be a human
filling out the captchas. Many people with nothing better to do could be
available to fill them 12 hours a day, and the potential payout is more
than worth ocasionally filling out a field.

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