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I meet the robot page pretty regularly, and it's always the same process.

  1. Set up a question here
  2. Forget to add one of the required tags
  3. get dinged
  4. add the tag
  5. submit

danger, danger Will Robinson

Would the team consider a special case for this situation? That is, if I just got the bird for a lack of tags, I should be allowed to post again with no minimum time.

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    It's not a solution per se, but CAPTCHA rates are drastically reduced once you hit 10k, for all reasons. Since hitting 10k, I haven't even seen one at all yet I do some pretty rapid edits. Telling someone to "go get rep" isn't much of a good solution, but at the same time I'm not sure I feel that there needs to be a particularly special case here.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Jan 17, 2011 at 13:27
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    It does it when you edit an answer/question twice in a row as well. 10k seems quite high, haven't we proved we are probably OK after 5k?
    – Tom
    Commented Jan 17, 2011 at 13:36
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    (It has been suggested that it's good enough to only type the word that is most easily read.)
    – Arjan
    Commented Jan 17, 2011 at 13:38
  • possible duplicate of Please remove captcha for editing and tagging
    – Andreas Bonini
    Commented Jan 17, 2011 at 13:38
  • Is robo editing really so rampant that we need the robots? Seems weird, but it is. Could posts getting rapid edits just show up in the 10k tools for people to keep an eye on them?
    – Brad Mace
    Commented Jan 17, 2011 at 13:38
  • You could clarify the feature request, so it doesn't appear as duplicate. My literal reading is that you are not annoyed by the CAPTCHA itself, but by the same old same old robots? If so, the proposed solution would be to have rotating and much more entertaining comic strips in place of the the robots. Right?
    – mario
    Commented Jan 17, 2011 at 14:52
  • If you're seeing this, it may actually be a bug! (or you just resubmitted too fast) meta.stackexchange.com/questions/72542/…
    – Jon Seigel
    Commented Jan 17, 2011 at 17:58

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