Max Semenik wrote:
I'm pretty sure most users technical enough to use IRC are able to solve captchas well.
That the backend is irc-based doesn't mean the would use a IRC frontend. We routinely point to web irc, and plenty of noobs have proven able to reach there (sometimes even thinking we are $Company since, after all, who else could you be talking to after following a Contact link on a [[$Company]] page at wikipedia.org?)