[hombre_fatal]

They must have not been around when proboards/ezboards/phpbbs were regularly taken over by spammers. It could single-handedly kill communities if the admins couldn't keep up.

It's hard for me to take people seriously who rail against recaptcha yet don't seem to realize why we use it nor pitch a real alternative. Or that spammer protection is overrated because their obscure blog doesn't get much spam.

It's easy to enumerate what sucks about something, but you can't just stop there.