Why do I have to prove I am a human, every time I refresh a page on this site ?

"....and just What makes you think I'm not human anyway?"
*Shifting position on the chair....tail getting kinked....*

The one minute power failure over the entire planet was finally ascribed to a surprise surge of sunspots on the opposite face of the sun, unseen from human monitoring stations.  These stations are being checked to make the potential recurrence of this event unlikely to not be predicted in the future.

( But that was just the 'official version' that Didn't explain why every cell phone everywhere in the regional language displayed:

F all y'all

or words to that effect, later blamed on a glitch....)

In short, don't take it personally...when asked, I usually mark 'Other'....

...nobody's followed up on it.....that left, anyway.... ;)

Plus it doesn't prove you're a human.

It only proves you're something capable of tapping a tiny box.

@thecarpathian :

This method actually does prove that you are human. It's the way you touch the screen or use the mouse. A computer will do it in an exacting way whereas a human will not.

Look look it up, it's actually quite interesting and quicker than captcha.

Albeit, it's still incredibly annoying.

@mesonto ,

I mean it could be a cat, or a parrot, or an ocelot.

My cat can be a real jerk. Who knows what he'll say when he gets on here when I'm at work...