Captchas are aggressive

[Riley]

Requiring a captcha every post I make and having a bunch of squares to click each time makes it more difficult to use the website than I think would be necessary.

[shorun]

Requiring a captcha every post I make and having a bunch of squares to click each time makes it more difficult to use the website than I think would be necessary.

without it this place would turn into a crypto scam board very quickly. unfortunately it is necessary to use a captcha to prevent this.

yes it's annoying we have to do this every new post and it is a massive hassle, but still necessary to keep this place clean.

[Lemmmy]

Thanks for the feedback. As shorun mentioned, forum spam in the modern age is extremely rampant. We get thousands of attempted bot sign-ups per day—though since we implemented the custom captcha, the number that actually get through is just a handful per day now.

You should only have to perform verification when you have less than 3 posts, or if your post contains links. In other words, since you have 3 posts now, you shouldn't be asked for it every time. Can you confirm if this is not the case?