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by Carnage4Life 5441 days ago
It seems you don't understand what CAPTCHAs are for on a large site. The purpose of a CAPTCHA is to make it expensive for automated systems to make fake accounts on your site. If the CAPTCHA requires them to hire people via Mechanical Turk to solve it then it has done it's job. If it requires a one line JQuery statement then it is a complete #fail.