Why is captcha enabled by default...

Why is captcha enabled by default? There are better ways of preventing spam and abuse that don't fuck over your main user base.

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reCAPTCHA is the best option. A terrible option but still the best.

Because it makes someone money, dipshit.

Moot tried an in-house captcha, the usage overpowered his Mac Mini setup. Only Google has the bandwidth to handle the site's traffic.

The mac mini hosting was a joke, also didn't hiro upgrade the servers?

>There are better ways of preventing spam
Examples?

there are better image boards around yet here you are

Jow Forums works together with google and law enforcement.
Captchas are there to make you believe that you are anonymous when in reality they already can attach a real name to each and every post here on Jow Forums.
There is a reason Jow Forums doesn't allow posting with Tor.

Moot got actual professional-level hosting long before he bailed out and sold Jow Forums. You just don't remember the days of everything running so slow you could get up and get a coffee, come back, and the page still hadn't updated.

github.com/bakape/captchouli