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<blockquote data-quote="fba827" data-source="post: 5528341" data-attributes="member: 807">If *that* level of question is getting beaten, then anything harder will turn away potential registrants.(Though I suspect someone probably sets up the bot's account, but it is possible for a bot to break those questions since they have easy keywords... i.e. you ask a computer &quot;how many ...&quot; of anything and it will start spitting out numbers. ask a computer anything with the word president and it will probably spit out the current president or the first president, etc. and the hardest one is actually &quot;dungeons and ..&quot; though i guess google does come up with dragons a lot (eventually, when you get past the pornography results)The audience (and potential audience) on ENWorld is pretty much any age group, any educational level, any geographic location (though, admittedly, there probably is a spike in demographics skewed towards male, late20s-mid30s, u.s., college educated).&nbsp; So it's hard to find a common theme there to make accessible questions.How about instead of making the questions harder, you simply rotate the questions around every day/week whatever (if there is an easy way to do that) out of a stock of similar-level questions such that if the questions are broken by a bot they can't keep generating as easily since the next time they try it will get a different group of questions.(sorry, i know all that is a ramble - my point being, rather than changing the *difficulty* of the questions, is it possible to increase the pool of questions and have a random 3 pulled from there every time to be answered?)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fba827, post: 5528341, member: 807"] If *that* level of question is getting beaten, then anything harder will turn away potential registrants. (Though I suspect someone probably sets up the bot's account, but it is possible for a bot to break those questions since they have easy keywords... i.e. you ask a computer "how many ..." of anything and it will start spitting out numbers. ask a computer anything with the word president and it will probably spit out the current president or the first president, etc. and the hardest one is actually "dungeons and .." though i guess google does come up with dragons a lot (eventually, when you get past the pornography results) The audience (and potential audience) on ENWorld is pretty much any age group, any educational level, any geographic location (though, admittedly, there probably is a spike in demographics skewed towards male, late20s-mid30s, u.s., college educated). So it's hard to find a common theme there to make accessible questions. How about instead of making the questions harder, you simply rotate the questions around every day/week whatever (if there is an easy way to do that) out of a stock of similar-level questions such that if the questions are broken by a bot they can't keep generating as easily since the next time they try it will get a different group of questions. (sorry, i know all that is a ramble - my point being, rather than changing the *difficulty* of the questions, is it possible to increase the pool of questions and have a random 3 pulled from there every time to be answered?) [/QUOTE]

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