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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (8 children)

How would you design a test that only a human can pass, but a bot cannot?

Very simple.

In every area of the world, there are one or more volunteers depending on population / 100 sq km. When someone wants to sign up, they knock on this person's door and shakes their hand. The volunteer approves the sign-up as human. For disabled folks, a subset of volunteers will go to them to do this. In extremely remote area, various individual workarounds can be applied.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This has some similarities to the invite-tree method that lobste.rs uses. You have to convince another, existing user that you're human to join. If a bot invites lots of other bots it's easy to tree-ban them all, if a human is repeatedly fallible you can remove their invite privileges, but you still get bots in when they trick humans (lobsters isn't handshakes-at-doorstep level by any margin).

I convinced another user to invite me over IRC. That's probably the worst medium for convincing someone that you're human, but hey, humanity through obscurity :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I convinced another user to invite me over IRC. That’s probably the worst medium for convincing someone that you’re human

Hahah, I'll say!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's exactly what a bot would say, bake him away toys!

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