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A typical Free Republic CAPTCHA
A typical Free Republic CAPTCHA
Seen during Google signup
Seen during Google signup
A friendly, welcoming CAPTCHA.
A friendly, welcoming CAPTCHA.

Pioneering bloggers and web 2.0 startups recognize that their sites are precious little snowflakes, and must never be used for evil. As such, they invented the CAPTCHA (acronym for?) to stop computers from using their sites without human assistance. The unintended result has been a complete cessation of blog posting and web 2.0 account signups as visitors realized that not a one gave enough of a fuck about "Articulate Babble" or ob.noxio.us to transcribe some kindergartener's scrawl.

Your standard math CAPTCHA
Your standard math CAPTCHA

[edit] Wikis

Wikipedia and other similar sites don't use CAPTCHA systems, and are prone to vandalism as a result, since it takes only seconds to register. The folks running Wikia do, however, leading to decreased spam and vandalism, and proving once again that Angela is smarter than Jimbo. Of course any wikia wiki that isn't watched closely may still be targeted.

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