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299 points gastonmorixe | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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jchw ◴[12 Nov 25 10:53 UTC] No.45898647[source]▶
I tried to donate, but apparently I am not human:

> 1 error prohibited this submission from being saved:

> Looks like you are not a human

Good to know.

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autoexec ◴[12 Nov 25 11:28 UTC] No.45898869[source]▶
I'm not sure why they'd try so hard to keep bots from paying them anyway. If someone wants to write a bot that constantly pays me good money I'm fine with that. I might rate limit it if the stream of payments coming in can't cover the cost of keeping the server from being DoS'd, but that's not going to inconvenience a human trying to submit a payment one time.
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op7 ◴[12 Nov 25 11:43 UTC] No.45898965[source]▶
Then when too many of the fradulent payments get charged back then your payment processor drops you
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michaelt ◴[12 Nov 25 11:53 UTC] No.45899032[source]▶
Sure, chargebacks cost money.

You know what else costs money? When someone wants to give you money, and you misidentify them as a bot and refuse their money.

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1. bawolff ◴[12 Nov 25 12:05 UTC] No.45899145[source]▶
Yeah, but one probably costs more money then the other, and it seems plausible its the chargebacks.