Then new forum moderation

[bauss]

On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 07:43:39 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Monday, 24 September 2018 at 12:56:43 UTC, JN wrote:
>> Well, it requires you to know what a ternary operator is
>
> It wouldn't be a captcha if the questions were like "what is 
> the most popular social network?". Also int doesn't implicitly 
> convert to bool.
>
> On Tuesday, 25 September 2018 at 05:52:57 UTC, bauss wrote:
>> Not for someone who is just introduced to programming and 
>> doesn't D want to attract newcomers? If so we cannot have a 
>> programmer specific captcha.
>
> I don't think you can go into programming from absolute zero.
>
>> I mean if you want to learn about history, what if history 
>> forums presented you with something like:
>>
>> "In which country was the first monarchy?"
>
> Monarchy is prehistoric (watching the Troy movie should be 
> enough), and yes, history forums do something like that. Also 
> you don't study history out of the blue, you're taught it in 
> school.

You can as a student at the university, where you're just 
introduced to programming.

How is monarchy prehistoric? Monarchies still exist today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_monarchies

That is beside my point though, my point was not about history 
and you completely missed it.

Facepalm.