Implementations of CAPTCHAs?

It would make a feeling that you have actually entered a giveaway with a chance to win something, without the sense of you having miserable chances to at least gain games you really want against the large botnets that use scripts.

I'll just repeat my answer from the previous times this was suggested.

The moment CPTCHAs get implementated is the moment I'll leave SG. I hate those with a passion. Sometimes it takes between 3 and 8 ones to have one accepting my clicks... and I clicked the right tiles for the bike or such / I only clicked on the mountains but it wouldn't get accepted.
SG is a place I like, but it is in no way something I can't go without.

Also IIRC someone (Archi ?) said there are ways for bots to get around / solve CAPTCHAs.

CAPTCHAs are horrible for humans so please... NEVER !

Bro, you registered 16 hours ago. You are the bot.
"Captcha" isn't a magical fix it all. People just like to overuse buzz words to make shit sound important and helpful.

Nothing would make you feel that you have entered a chance to win something. Nothing will change that. You know why? Cause you don't want a chance, you want a win. Unless you win, you will feel like shit. And that's a you problem.

So engage with the community, do giveaways, maybe someone will add you to whitelist of small group so that you have a better chance of winning. But besides that I consider the excuse of bots in a website like this is just gaslighting yourself to feel better.

Given cg isn't the fastest changing aspects of the site and image recognition algorithms surpassing humans in accuracy by 15% at present any implementation would come too late.

And what about reCAPTCHA v3, I think could be invisible and there are no challenges to solve ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I'm entering ~635 GA/month. It's near 21 GA/day.
Normally, I'm spending 20 mins/day for siting here. Adding CAPTCHA will increase this time to 41-62 min/day. It would be near 1 230 - 1860 min/month = 20,5 - 31 hrs/month.

I don't want to waste such amount of time because some ppl's fear of bots. I would rather sleep additional 20,5 - 31 hrs/month

I hate CAPTCHAs - they annoy me so much.
Really bad idea.

CAPTCHAs just give the bots more and people less.

Puzzles are best, but difficulty levels and length of time spent wouldn't be a bad thing to add to the mix :)

31 entries, and already such a developed opinion, aren't you a fast one ^^

Hey jotunnqar,
welcome to Steamgifts. Similar to Kabirbd above, I am a little surprised to see someone being here for just a few hours already worrying about bots.How come?

There's scripts to solve CAPTCHAS anyways now

NO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWUHv3S8JVI

Short form:
Bots solve them nowadays faster and more accurate as humans

That would annoy only fair human users and would get rid only of part of bots, bot farms will just upgrade their scripts as these most likely won't use random autojoin script app from internet.

Counter suggestion - remove giveaways, then bots won't bother us.

I don't like captchas and LLMs solve captchas better than me already. It would only prevent bots for a short time so it's not worth it. What needs to be done is banning autojoiners in a regular phase.

i use captcha solver extension :)

Um that would be more annoying

If it's for every entry than that would actually favor bot behavior and use of auto-solvers and just make things worse for real users.

I thought it could be useful if it's someone mass entering/leaving giveaways in a couple of seconds, but if it is easy to bypass then it still is probably not worth the time to implement it. If its hard to bypass I think this approach could be useful and also not disruptive to real people.

I would love to have a captcha system where you don't have to do it all the time, but it is on a timer that requires you to do another after a certain amount of time. I talked about it in a few previous threads. Here is one I was able to find.

Grand falstart, temporarily disqualified :(

There no good solution for bot problem:

• CPTCHAs: add time and and there are script to solve it
• Puzzles: Need be creative + need of bump (and add time to create and enter GA)
• changes for points: can introduce chaos
• high level GA: cuts people who have in low income from GA
• groups: person still can use bot, in internet you can`t believe on everything

This guy made an alt to ask this cause he knew asking this on his main would give him a BL fest. You already knew the answer to the question, since you had to go through the effort of not asking this on your main.

I fully STILL support this idea! Bring in all the captchas!