[sldev] CAPTCHA to validate land sales.

[dirk husemann]

Dale Glass wrote:
> 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.
>   
besides there are algorithms to parse captchas and it turns out it's
rather tough to create a good captcha.

    cheers,
    dirk

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