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301 points gastonmorixe | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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1. jacquesm ◴[12 Nov 25 12:37 UTC] No.45899405[source]▶
That's because the bots will use such services to 'taste' cards to see if they work. Then if they do the criminals can resell them for a higher value than for which they bought them for.