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.

[kayt_arminta]

+1 for me

[eosrose]

Wow, I didn't even know that was a rule... Good thing I've got another couple years before I cross the 5000 mark... I am absolutely for this suggestion!

[azurelunatic]

It is not 5000 comments to the journal ever, it is 5000 comments to one single entry. Some very busy journals and communities reach this regularly.

[eosrose]

I suppose anon communities and memes have to worry about this quite a lot.

[azurelunatic]

Many of them that I've observed tend to make a new entry when the 5000 limit hits, so that the trailing end of it can wrap up (with captchas) before the 10,000 maximum limit on comments for one entry hits.

Once upon a time, ohnotheydidnt discovered that there was an undocumented and unintended total limit to comments in one journal in the database; that was fixed after a certain amount of troubleshooting. If not for all the worry that accompanied it, it was sort of hilarious as a bystander.