If 1 hour giveaways (and only 1 hour giveaways) were protected with easy captchas (not street signs etc), would you enter?
That's why they call them "Flash GAs" ;-)
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I like the idea of captcha required after entering X giveaways, say, 5
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My opinion on captchas that I posted in another thread:
I know a lot of people would not want a captcha for every giveaway, myself included, but what if the site added 1 captcha per hour? You would only have to complete a captcha if you have not completed one in the last hour and then you can enter whatever you want for the next hour. I think that would work great, at least for stopping the bots while people are sleeping. Most people that use bots would probably be too lazy to come here during the day every hour and complete a captcha as well.
I would even be happy with having to do one every 30 minutes. Most people probably go to the main page and enter everything they want to enter in less than 30 minutes. I don't see why other people that spend much more time here, like myself, would have a problem with doing one every 30 minutes. It may not be needed though, 1 hour might be good enough.
The only thing I would like would be the ability to complete a captcha in advance if I want to restart the 1 hour or 30 minute timer. This is because I have on countless occasions found a giveaway that was ending in less than 20 or 15 seconds and I am just able to enter before it ends. It would not be cool if I saw a giveaway that was ending very soon and then I got a popup telling me to complete a captcha before i can enter the giveaway and I missed it. Maybe you could give us the option to manually do a captcha early so when you know the captcha timer is ending soon, I could click a button, like syncing your Steam account, to manually do a captcha early and restart the timer so it doesn't happen unexpectedly.
It should only pop up when you want to enter a giveaway, not just to use the site like if you were reading the discussion boards. Maybe you can even add a little timer on the top of the page with a countdown letting you know how long until you have to complete another and have an optional button to manually do a captcha now to reset the timer.
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I love your experiments! I don't have a problem with giving GA creators the option of using (re)captcha.
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A 1 hour giveaway for Munin is
here, behind a captcha.For comparison, a couple of months ago a 1 hour public GA for this game ended with 957 entries. This was before the new point system update, but even competing with 300 bots is no fun. Update: This GA ended with 91 entries, all human.
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