Captcha for Paid users

[fathersresearch]

Title
Captcha for Paid users

Short, concise description of the idea
Captcha for comments over 5000+ should not be applied to paid users.

Full description of the ideaI understand the need to discourage over usage so that others can use LiveJournal for free, but I also believe that paid users should retain some freedom from simple and slightly annoying

Comments

[dobie]

-1 to this.

The catchpa is there to prevent bots form spam-flooding an entry with comments in a malicious fashion. If a Paid User's account were to become compromised, then the security feature would be useless.

It in no way impairs a real person from leaving a comment.

[rebelsheart]

 

[dobie]

Yes, but, the catchpa exists for a reason. There is no good excuse for introducing a security hole.

[gerg]

Generally speaking, this is correct. I'd support removing the comment captcha for paid/perm accts.

[lady_angelina]

I can understand the security concerns that the original commenter brought up. But with that said, I agree, too. As someone who frequently comments via BlackBerry, which can NOT support ReCAPTCHA at this time, I am effectively barred from posting even logged-in comments to entries containing over 5,000 comments (or at least until I get home).

So while this wouldn't solve the underlying problem of ReCAPTCHA not playing nicely with BlackBerry or other mobile devices (and there's a whole separate suggestion addressing this), it's a start.

[azurelunatic]

I would be more worried about a botmaster having their bots buy accounts with stolen credit cards, myself.

[trixieleitz]

CAPTCHAs do present a barrier to accessibility for some users, so your last statement is not completely accurate.