Originally Posted by: tgchan

Paid subscribers shouldn't use captcha to confirm we are humans... Am I right? It's not like bots will buy subscriptions...

During the past couple years or so GT suffered a very large influx of spam posts usually, but not always, from new 'members.' In that recent past there was close to a thousand -- some foreign language posts hitting a hundred or more a day which was more than a little disruptive to the Forum. The security features recently implemented have drastically cut the spam posts, almost to zero, and are certainly worth the 'cost' of a once-in-a-while 15-second delay while we members work our way through the CAPTCHA challenge and response.

Speaking of spam... IMO, it would be best if yours in your Forum Signature was removed.