It truly drives me up a wall. My eyesight is not the best, and I have to get right up to the screen and some of the pictures are ambiguous. Is that a bus or not? How do you define street signs? What constitutes a road? How do I remember what is a new image and what is not? Some of us are old farts with failing vision and would love to have something a little easier to work with. Sigh.
I believe they are trying to decrease traffic on the forums to cut down on the amount of damage control they need to do after wasting time changing balance in the game.
You give these forums way too much credit. They probably read 5% of the non-essay posts and 0% of the essays. The super special types would jump through any hoop to post their reject EQ theses though so..
How do we know you aren't a robot if you don't click the box and prove it?? And what does it mean if you ARE a robot and still get in??