Jaba166 wrote...
It's not. If I paid to access stuff here it's very unlikely that I'll start wreaking havoc. It's not in my interest. People who want to conduct an attack usually either don't have accounts or create throw-away accounts. You can just have the captcha on the account creation page, for example.
Just made a dummy account to re-familiarise myself with the registration process. Not made an account for years.
Currently it's a simple case of inputting an e-mail address, password, a tick box or two, and then verifying it using the e-mail address.
I think with the way it's currently set up it's meant to discourage making multiple accounts since you have to verify, with reCaptcha as a backup to make sure you're a human logging in to your account on return visits since under normal circumstances a human would have no problem solving it, as annoying as they are. Even then I don't think I've seen one lately, so I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say that it shows you them less often as you solve them. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Re-working that system because of a single browser having documented issues with a spam prevention system seems a bit much.