Rikkitic:I appreciate the problem with bots and I know that no-one is going out of their way to annoy people, but I really hate these Captchas. They are an absolute pain in the butt.
+1. I have to de-NoScript Google just to log in, which means a million other websites get more annoying because now all the Google gunk that's attached to them is activated. Is there some other way to rate-limit bots, e.g. running Fail2ban, which doesn't involve that annoying captcha every time I log in? I've also had the problem where it's taken me five or ten attempts to log in just to reply to a post or message, although luckily none in the past few weeks.