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We have just implemented ReCaptcha for making posts for users who have "watched" status. Should effectively work along the lines of rate limiting.
The "watched" status will automatically convert into "approved" when certain reputation threshold is crossed from below and it will still be possible to assign the "watched" status back.
Admins, moderators and approved users won't need to use the captcha. Also the captcha will be forced upon the user registration.