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Hey, hey, I think it's a legitimate complaint. I really do wish it was a little less... hard-and-fast, especially since there are a lot of foreign members who might have every right to participate here but be thrown off by difficulties of interpreting the question.

That said, do you have a better suggestion? I mean I understand you're unhappy with how it's handled now, but it's hard to do something about it without a more concrete idea to go on. I realize other forums don't require this, but... well, you also have to realize that the recent effort against spam here didn't come lightly to the site. It'd be great if we could strike a balance. But please have some sympathy for the fact that a site run on free time and user donations can't afford to spend too much of its efforts on manual spam-busting. So some sort of safeguard like this will have to stay I'm afraid.