http://simonwillison.net/2009-04-29T11:13:40+00:00Simon Willison2009-04-29T11:13:40+00:002009-04-29T11:13:40+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Apr/29/moot/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://musicmachinery.com/2009/04/27/moot-wins-time-inc-loses/">moot wins, Time Inc. loses</a></strong></p> The Time.com poll hack was more sophisticated than I first thought... Time implemented reCAPTCHA half way through the voting period, but the 4chan community fought back with a custom interface that crowdsourced the job of voting and let individuals submit up to 30 votes a minute. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/4chan">4chan</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/captchas">captchas</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/moot">moot</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/onlinepolls">onlinepolls</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recaptcha">recaptcha</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/security">security</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/timedotcom">timedotcom</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/voting">voting</a></p>