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Originally Posted by GS1000
Please either eliminate CAPTCHA, or slow the "time" for clicking choices. It is often so rapid clicking on the final button is impossible. Then more time wasted on this crap.
I hope whoever "invented" CAPTCHA has their body infested with the fleas of 10,000 camels, then is given to malignant sadists to be slowly tortured for eternity!!
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Yes CAPTCHAS can be a pain.
CAPTCHA = Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
They are named in honour of Alan Turing who suggested that if a human could not tell the resposes of a machine from that of a human, then the machine should be treated as a human.
CAPTCHAS are designed to stop the unscrupulous from using automated bots to pretend to be people eg upvoting/downvoting/posting spam etc. see here for more reasons tsohost.com/blog/6-reasons-why-your-website-needs-a-captcha-form
Making them too complex for most machines in the time available, yet easy enough for most people is a tightrope act, as machines and their programs get better. I'm not sure the admin here can alter the timeout of our CAPTCHAS as they are probably processed on eg google's servers.