Had to try more than 15 times just to solving the captcha. I was bored indeed. Why do forum require solving that captcha? Terrible experience.
Very terrible indeed especially for a first timer.
Lemme ask, is there any chance that you are using Tor or one of those private browsers that try to block tracking by google?
This sort of "special punishment" is handed out by Cloudflare to users who try to browser privately using certain browsers.
If you are having reCaptcha issue, you can bypass it using this
link. The link would only work for one account.
Captcha is meant to limit the creation of of bot accounts used to spam the forum.
How does that help when it's Her/his first time registering?
We understand there is a lot of bot account creation but also this is a pain to a new user as OP stated. The reason why so many bot accounts are so easy to create here is partly due to the lack of email verification feature.