Why does this happen nearly every time the page has to reload?

[noxiousPond]

I leave this website as a background tab on my phone and any time it has to reload after any period of time it goes through this security thing where I have to check off that I am human before it can actually load the page. Sometimes it’s multiple times I have to do this before slap even loads. My question is why? This is the only website I’ve ever been on in the history of me being on the internet where this happens outside of buying a concert ticket or buying something where scalpers are involved. It’s a forum……

[Alan]

Other users have mentioned this as well, and it's happening to me too (though not as often as to you). I've also encountered this on some other websites, and not all of them were message boards. Your post made me google this issue and it's just a way for websites to weed out bots and spam. I don't know if Slap can, should, or want to turn off this feature. That's a question for @admin  But I get that it's annoying af if you have to keep doing it all the time.

[admin]

We got rocked by some bots crawling and scraping the site not to long ago (likely for AI bots and such) so we instituted the security checks. Will see if we can dial it back a bit.