A viciously mean CAPTCHA can be worse than saying "we aren't allowing new accounts right now, sorry." https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/image?c=03AHJ_Vutw8X

A viciously mean CAPTCHA can be worse than saying "we aren't allowing new accounts right now, sorry." https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/image?c=03AHJ_Vutw8XwYqiyhWsv8G5nYgad0R0mGi9ZTyQmbJpoSzJv0tJwspYPGVVYjzwMlOKL37wzUw3SSlUKrhIO0hvmYNmY7iIaaWQyCEXprzNGYFDvpbJiu3JW6-L0p4xXRO6wUUG-LiyxuJ1YwqFSTZadbTasR8zpVkkTLmNNZR9-EUdARTyHwk84biJh6RQSWNG5cAAiMiT75SuHh45bc3v7zsQWkFWa9kQ https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api/image?c=03AHJ_Vutw8XwYq... You can get so aggressive against new hostile users that you end up being downright hostile to new legitimate users. For example, automatically marking posts from new users as [dead] without telling them is assuming that they are all bad people. If new accounts making new posts is a problem, then disable it -- don't let innocent new users make new posts and lie to them that they made their post when no one else can see it or comment on it. I know this job is hard. I request that you simply turn features off instead of silently breaking them.