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I was trying to post a question on Android Enthusiasts earlier on my (government) work WiFi, and was put through a slightly painful experience involving captcha.

This got me thinking, why am I even suspicious? Yes, I'm on my non-home WiFi so there may be suspicious traffic related to other people using the internet here, but I'm logged in to my account on the Stack Exchange Network. I have close to 30k rep across the Network, have been a member for some 5 years, and AFAIK, don't have any major strikes against my account.

Why are "established users" required to complete captcha? I would think that any instance of someone running amok would be fringe at best and easily handled on a case-by-case basis.

Can experience on the site be taken into consideration when prompting someone for a captcha?

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  • related: meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1343/…
    – Robert Longson
    Commented Jun 9, 2019 at 7:54
  • If you have at least 200 reputation and have solved one in the last five minutes, you won't have to solve one again.
    – Sonic the Anonymous Hedgehog
    Commented Jun 9, 2019 at 17:09
  • @SonictheBracketedHedgehog It's extraordinarily unlikely that I'd ever run into such a case though; it's rare for me to get a captcha in the first place. I'm not asking this because I think it's a big deal or anything. I just think that the current way it's set up is sub-optimal and doesn't make much sense.
    – Carcigenicate
    Commented Jun 9, 2019 at 17:20
  • If the community/mods disagree with my suggestion, then ok. This certainly isn't the hill I'm willing to die on. I just thought I'd bring it up.
    – Carcigenicate
    Commented Jun 9, 2019 at 17:40
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    @Carcigenicate Your post is very reasonable, and I've run into this, myself, even on my own network at home. I'm glad you "brought it up."
    – amWhy
    Commented Jun 9, 2019 at 21:26
  • It's not just the possibility that you, the established user might be suddenly running amok - one has to consider the possibility that it's some malicious person who has stolen your credentials, or sat down at your workstation while you're still logged in. I would guess this happens more often than we think.
    – Nate Eldredge
    Commented Jun 10, 2019 at 0:20
  • @NateEldredge I was referring to compromised accounts when I mentioned "someone running amok", although I could have made that more explicit. And it does seem to be a dupe, but I disagree with the reasoning. Are high activity accounts really compromised at a rate that justifies safety measures? Regardless, I'll accept that.
    – Carcigenicate
    Commented Jun 10, 2019 at 0:33

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