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done_lurking 16 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Creepy Crawlies

As gp said, it does provide some protection. If it didn't, nobody would use it and there would be nothing to discuss. Making snarky comparisons doesn't do anything.

lxgr 15 days ago [–]

People can remain irrationally convinced about the efficacy of non-solutions to their problems for quite a while, in my experience.

And I really wasn't trying to be snarky; people had "what is i + j" type of captchas for a long time and I still see them every once in a while!

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