Timeline for Why does Serverfault (as well as StackOverflow etc.) asks for captcha so often?
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| Oct 8, 2010 at 14:22 | comment | added | Chris S | Robots might simply follow every link, and therefor would get caught by this. Webcrawlers (like Google) are "guided" and wouldn't simply follow every link. | |
| Oct 8, 2010 at 13:54 | comment | added | Ivan | But isn't it illogical? Do robots ever edit their posts? I've always thought they just post and forget. | |
| Oct 6, 2010 at 5:40 | vote | accept | Ivan | ||
| Oct 6, 2010 at 2:34 | history | answered | Chris S | CC BY-SA 2.5 |