I really don't like captchas, those images with some letters that you have to type in before you can add a comment on some websites. However, I also don't like having to delete about 50 spam comments a day, so I have enabled captchas.
I didn't go all out with crazy dots and lines all over the image, so they shouldn't be too much of a pain. I'll leave the captchas turned on like this for a couple weeks, and then see how how much spam I've actually avoided.

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