I'm not a fan either. I have several sites I have to use for business that require it. Such a pain in the ass.
BTW: I hate Captcha too!
I wouldn't mind captcha if google didn't have a monopoly on it which trains their AI systems effectively making people do free labor for them. When it was just letters for the purpose of validating it was understandable. Now it's just abuse.
We all hate captcha, but before poal had one, we were plagued with spam.
Since we've added one (PyCaptcha doesn't track you like the Joogle crap) and made a custom wordlist, we've reduced spam by 99%.
The comment/post captcha goes away after level 6.
What is level 6?
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