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Why is Captcha for higher rep users even necessary?
Please stop asking me a captcha with over 500 reputation. I am human

The fact that you are asking me this question when I am LOGGED IN using my Google account is a very, very disturbing thing.

It suggests that your site and servers are a security nightmare, and that no one should entrust you with their personal information.

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    How does it suggest that? It is possible to login manually and then run a bot while you're still logged in, you know.
    – animuson StaffMod
    Feb 29, 2012 at 0:48
  • This happens after several edits are made consecutively, right?
    – Someone
    Feb 29, 2012 at 0:49
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    The only thing it suggests is that you don't understand how these things work. A spammer could easily log in to their Google account, and then start a bot. The captcha mechanism is there to prevent that (very real) possibility.
    – Pekka
    Feb 29, 2012 at 0:53
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    Hmmm... are you a human being? (a bot would say surely say "yes", so answer carefully)
    – user159834
    Feb 29, 2012 at 1:06
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    You're right on one part: no one should entrust you with their personal information. I don't know what kind of personal information you've been asked to give but here we just do programming...
    – sarnold
    Feb 29, 2012 at 1:32
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    Nice try, robot.
    – Dennis
    Feb 29, 2012 at 1:38
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    possible duplicate of Please stop asking me a captcha with over 500 reputation. I am human, Why is Captcha for higher rep users even necessary?, Can throttling be eliminated for users with a certain rep?
    – Cody Gray - on strike
    Feb 29, 2012 at 1:58
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    No. No, I am not.
    – user474678
    Aug 23, 2019 at 19:00

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It's a bot protection mechanism. Bots can't solve the Captcha. Occasionally it gets tripped by a human being exhibiting machine-like behaviors. That has nothing to do with login security or personal information.

People can still do lots of damage with bots, even if they're logged in. Especially if they're logged in.

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The fact that you are asking me this question when I am LOGGED IN using my Google account is a very, very disturbing thing.

Really? Can't a bot sign up with a Google account to and go off on a spamming rampage? Your argument isn't the best here, since anyone can get a Google ID and get a bot to sign in with it.

It suggests that your site and servers are a security nightmare, and that no one should entrust you with their personal information.

No, it suggests that we actually care about what content is being posted on this site and would like to avoid some bot posting "I LOVE PONIES" everywhere.

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    Aww... I liek ponies.
    – user102937
    Feb 29, 2012 at 0:52
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    @RobertHarvey We like unicorns here.
    – Simon Sheehan
    Feb 29, 2012 at 0:53
  • @Simon Sheehan: <3
    – BoltClock's a Unicorn
    Feb 29, 2012 at 0:56
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    lieking ponies is okay; LOVING ponies is not. If I'm reading this correctly.
    – user154510
    Feb 29, 2012 at 2:22
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It suggests that your site and servers are a security nightmare, and that no one should entrust you with their personal information.

No, it suggests that we don't trust our users† (that they necessarily are human beings). Isn't that the pinnacle of security practices anyway?

† Not those with under 20k reputation anyway.

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    I occasionally get the captcha even with 150k+ rep
    – Pekka
    Feb 29, 2012 at 0:55
  • @Pekka: Aw. I was hoping to be serious about that 20k privilege, but I guess not.
    – BoltClock's a Unicorn
    Feb 29, 2012 at 0:55
  • @Pekka we also show the captcha to people with "Bordello" in their name ;-)
    – The Unhandled Exception
    Feb 29, 2012 at 1:00
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    Even a ♦ does not make one immune to the dreaded captcha.
    – Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'
    Feb 29, 2012 at 1:21

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