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Did anyone try such a thing?

For example, to vote/submit/comment, you might be required to solve an IQ test type problem first.

These problems might be chosen at random from ones created by other members of the site.



I like it -- a CAPTCHA for stupidity.

You could do pretty simple problems (like the Project Euler stuff), with a few random elements to keep things interesting -- especially because the smartest people would come up with shortcuts and be able to post more frequently than those who solved it by hand.


This is a great idea from a publicity standpoint. Journalists will eat it up.

I will definitely throw this in for one of my upcoming sites.. Are you thinking of building an entire site around it?

edit: see how all of the negative publicity really positively helped hotenough.org recently.


sounds like a pretty boring place to hang out.




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