Why so much hate for an AFK timer?

[Nanga]

why not have us fill out a CAPTCHA every 30 minutes to prove we're not botting. We all have keyboards don't we?

It's not about botting. It kicks people who are just standing around AFK for 30 minutes doing nothing. sure, CAPTCHA would also fix that, but also pointlessly annoy people who ARE at the keyboard pushing buttons anyways, and are not AFK. If you ARE, in fact, just sitting there at your keyboard staring at your screen, doing nothing, just push spacebar every 20-25 minutes.

[HatsuneMiku]

It's not about botting. It kicks people who are just standing around AFK for 30 minutes doing nothing. sure, CAPTCHA would also fix that, but also pointlessly annoy people who ARE at the keyboard pushing buttons anyways, and are not AFK. If you ARE, in fact, just sitting there at your keyboard staring at your screen, doing nothing, just push spacebar every 20-25 minutes.

what is the difference between pushing spacebar every 20 minutes and entering a 5 letter captcha every 30 minutes. there are afk people who will get booted and there are bots that will get booted. what part of this are you not understanding.