Anubis? I was against the old "prove you've bought this game by reading the printed manual", I am against every "guilty (of being fake) until proven" on the device as in real life. For me even the (slightly ironic) "I'm not a robot" is already a bit of a crack in a service to a customer or user. Especially when I'm required to act like an automaton, scanning images while a real automaton evaluates my humanity by imperscrutable parameters and without an easy review of its response. Whatever Anubi is, I don't want my soul to be weighted against a plume.
I'm usually all in about a bit of a quarrel when the topic is worth it. Yet I think this approach is provocative for the sake of it

It proves you're good at saying you're right (that's easy).
The balance between pros and cons is so uneven I can't believe it's a serious proposal.
These points and issues, however, make evident something is superfluous or not working very well: to me, is the dreamlist idea itself. It should be merged with the wishlist with a new voting system. Maybe excluding by time of sign up? I doubt it can be taken very strictly, though, it will hardly be more than a generic survey, it shouldn't be treated as a certified vote imho.

You're weirdly bitter about this. The Community Wishlist (and now Dreamlist) has definitely helped GOG know what to what pursue, and myself. Because of the votes on the Wishlist, I helped kickstart the resurrection of Harvester, Starship Titanic, and Betrayer, and helped bring Heroine's Quest (and I think I can take credit for World of Goo, Submarine Titans, The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians, Aquaria, Cyberia 1+2, Graverobber Foundation games, and possibly a few others). I suspect some smaller indies were brought here because of Wishlist votes, like Nelly Coot-a-lot and Ynglet.

The last batch of Ubisoft games (close to a decade ago now) that appeared here had highly-voted (relative to the Wishlist) games like Albion, Archimedean Dynasty, and Anno 1602. I believe I played a role in this by contacting a former Ubisoft employee and suggesting these.

The last Activision release (also long ago) also had mostly games high on the Wishlist.

Pretty sure Stephen Kick resurrected System Shock 2 in part because he saw all the thousands of Wishlist votes.

The Dreamlist was credited with helping resurrect Breath of Fire 4: https://x.com/GOGcom/status/1915692579011649567

I don't think GOG would have brought and owned (before SNEG bought it) the SSI D&D, some Warhammer, and Warloards games if not for the Wishlist votes.

SKALD: Against The Black Priory, Realms of Antiquity, Grimoire: Heralds of the Winged Exemplar, Arabian Nights, Huniepop, Dink Smallwood

Now naturally popular games are popular :P, so GOG will in many instances know what to go after, but it's not totally worthless as you seem to think.

Maybe it was just Civvie 11's video, but I'm not sure the Witchaven games would have been resurrected by SNEG if not for the 1000+ votes.

Now, there's 3 reasons why I would choose Anubis https://anubis.techaro.lol/
1) The mascot is cute.
2) It is open source.
3) The system is actually a series of scripts and rules to decide on what functionally constitutes a bot, and it does this all automatically, meaning you just have to wait a moment before you get past the gates of the underworld.

Im hardly bitter. I understand the people directing the gaming industry. The big cometitor to gog also knows. That is how the unpleasant behaviors slip through and take hold of the industry, as they have already proven through practice.

But I do believe voting with real intent, is by showing the big publishers people are interested, beyond a passive clickity click and a hope. Gog staff has only to add the pay option along side the normal passive vote. It solves the problem of "can I get a return on this investment?" question, all publishers have.

Unless people have a lapse of sanity and assume gog is a charity lol

While an optional donation can be seen as harmless, if people pay for [random title] and it doesn't get released after months or even years, that would be more work on GOG's already understaffed plate refunding the money

You have *way* too much faith on your plan working (for some reason) that can't see its shortcomings

Is it managed by the site owner or by an external service that gets stats and data from the checked site?
The main grudge is this (that's why I don't consider ReCaptcha optimal , not even the new effortless version n.3 "invisible"; add to this that it's very widespread and centalised, offered by a very big corp)
The open source bit is a good point.

P.S.
I didn't say "Snop" !

Your opinion is fine. But mine is not invalidated by you, because do not like it.

The idea is sound, regardless of gog being understaffed. Share your ideas about what you think could make a publisher interested. Publisher decision makers are in business for money.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I already said the dreamlist is "fine" as it is, if anything it's a good way to measure the interest in classic and newer titles, after that it's up to the publisher

There's no need to come up with revolutionary ideas because at the end of the day, GOG operates on a smaller scale