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		iwwr on March 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Auto submission bots on Hacker News If there's CAPTCHA, then submit an app that collects these images and sends them to your phone. Send back the answer to help the bot.

Maxious on March 30, 2011 [–]

That would at least slow down the bots based on how attentive the maintainers are. There are of course captcha solving services but this just trades maintainer time for money - trying to run a successful karma hoarding bot would still be death by a thousand papercuts.

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