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		mcv on June 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You probably don’t need ReCAPTCHA As long as it's a public forum, I don't see the issue. It's going to be public anyway, and they could easily scrape it if they want to. The submission itself should be done by the site, so the user remains anonymous.

vkou on June 13, 2019 [–]

There's a lot of information that can improve spam classification, that is not publicly queryable.

Any spam detection engine that asks for that information will outperform ones that don't.

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