Pay or train AGIs for each post?

As much as I hate it and think it is anti-4chan as a concept, it has reduced spam and is probably necessary. Can you even imagine how bad spam would be if it didn't exist? It was already unbearable in 2007, and now the site has 10 times more users.

>>1427072
In all seriousness, what are the reasons why you wouldn't want to pay?

The community and atmosphere would have been ruined with or without it.

>>1427072
captchas = lazy devs

>>1427072
no

what the fuck is wrong with google? they said that the captcha would just require one click, this is bullshit

It's impossible to have no captcha on a cancerous site such as 4chan

>>1427198
reCapcha isn't designed to be solved 1000 times a day by a single person. They get harder because Google thinks a bot is solving them.

>>1427072
Remember when it was supposed to be temporary?
>>1427074
I'd honestly rather have spam than having to solve 47 captchas just to post. Filters exist for a reason.

>>1427101
How would you combat 4chan.js-like scripts which are flooding most if not all boards?

>>1427479
Filters don't really work when the first two or three pages of your dead board of choice are nothing but porn spam. Sure, you hide them, but in this case they are bumping on-topic threads off.

>>1427491
Not my fault boards are dead. There is literally no defending captcha the way it currently is. It's fucking terrible.

>>1427493
I don't have any trouble with it. Are you not using the legacy captcha?

>>1427487
Most 4chan.js scripts had filters set up to block them. To stop Cornelia my temporary solution would be to block Internet Explorer users from uploading PNG files. Then if we couldn't find an efficient way to filter them without cutting function, we put on a self-hosted captcha but only for the suspicious posts (like Internet Explorer uploading PNG files, and many other signatures). Also make all cooldown timers site-wide instead of board-specific to slow them down; that should be common sense, but in all these years it was only ever implemented for thread creation. The bots can't spread if moderation outpaces them.

>>1427502
As for the supposed impossibility of filtering Cornelia because you would have to examine the image contents, well, the system already has to do that in order to generate thumbnails. And you don't have to scan every image; most are not PNG and very few 4chan users were IEtards, so it wouldn't be as much load as you might think.

>>1427495
I did, but it started fucking up too.

>>1427506
Have you used it recently? At some point they switched it from adaptive difficulty to easy mode only.

I should also point out that the current captcha does not stop 4chan.js type scripts. If you insisted on using Recaptcha, you would be forced to use v2. But Recaptcha v2 is absolute cancer, so as I said, the best way if you were forced to use a captcha would be a self-hosted captcha only required for suspicious posts.