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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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Seems to me like you're mis-framing what's being said to fit your argument and claim the other person as a troll. No one has made a claim about stopping "ALLLLLL" bots or "perfection". It's about whether it stops enough to matter. And I think it's safe to assume if someone had the interest and capability to write a bot, they can probably google "how to defeat captcha" and implement one of them. If there's currently not a flood of bot accounts, I believe it's from a lack of caring rather than the captchas doing anything.
There are solutions for bots, they should be implemented, but keeping the existing captcha isn't worth it. Multiple things can be true, but I get the feeling you're set enough in your opinion that you're going to (continue to) attack the character of anyone who disagrees.
Not entirely sure about the misframing thing, because I see a pretty clear pattern of arguing towards perfection, I'm not sure how one could look at that and not arrive at the interpretation. It didn't seem to matter how complex the task was, the point was always "that version can be overcome - it's pointless".
All the while missing the point. If we're arguing "stops enough to matter" then the answer is self evident. The captcha is currently the difference between a bot problem and not for many and that's what's happening now, not in the future (as near or as distant it may be). Multiple things can be true indeed "This is a bad implementation and needs replacement" "this is currently stopping things from getting worse", but that doesn't also mean "We should remove it now and not worry about a replacement until afterwards".
I'm not saying they're not perfect, I'm saying they're effectively worthless. They're so easily bypassed that it's not worth supporting in the first place.