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Why do you have to type in random characters to answer a question?
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'Captcha'ing the Spambots

At the bottom of answer boxes when answering unanswered questions you will now see a request to enter five characters that appear in an image.

We put this in place to prevent "spambots": computer programs that spider the web automatically posting offensive messages and advertising. Entering the characters from the images proves that you're a human being. This sort of filtering device is called a CAPTCHA program.

Spambots became such a problem that we needed to implement a technical solution. We apologize for the inconvenience. However, if you log in with your username and password, you will not be requested to fill these in.

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