Question: Some days ago, the spam protection was turned up a notch.

Unfortunately, it overshot the target by far. Now, as soon as I make two edits in close succession (which happens *often* – I’m sloppy), I am presented with a “human verification” and a **totally unreadable captcha.** It takes an average of five reloads to get a marginally readable one, and even then I’m guessing (and sometimes guessing wrong).

Please tune down the filter, or at least switch to a readable captcha.

In fact, wasn’t there previously a rule that once contributors had enough reputation, they’d be trusted not to be bots? Did that get switched off or am I remembering this wrong?

Answer: 
Over almost ***four years*** on Stack Overflow, Konrad has earned almost ***150k rep***. A highly committed Stack Overflow citizen, with ***2.5k answers*** and a mere 60 questions, he's one of those users that made Stack Overflow famous. He has ***40(!) accounts*** across Stack Exchange, eight of which sport ***>1k rep***. He is ***a moderator*** on one site.

Is anybody *really and seriously* trying to tell me ***nagging such a user with CAPTCHAs*** is doing the Stack Exchange network a favor?
![very annoying!](https://i.stack.imgur.com/6Sgrl.png)

Really?!!?!!

Granted I was on a friend's PC, not logged in... but there's got to be better alternative to captchas.

Wait, maybe it should have been `tbckno seems` with a **b**