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		singlow on June 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Replace CAPTCHA with Proof-of-Work To allow for larger workload values, could the user start "earning" points by doing jobs as soon as they reach the website, and then "spend" those points when they decide to post. The average user will have been on the site for a few minutes once they decide to make a post. When they reach the post page, they will have already earned the post privilege in the form of a payload that has been stored in local storage or cookies.

yid on June 25, 2014 [–]

Interesting idea. It would also give people who frequent the site the most the loudest voices (which could be a good or bad thing)

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