So i was posting something today here and then got pushed to a verify you are a human Captcha - have the forums changed this week?

I don't recall having to do this with Bethesda before - and if I am logged in how often do we need to verify ourselves?

It seems to be a bug with the forum software.
It happens randomly sometimes. You can just hit Back and retry your post, it shouldn't appear again.

Gonna hijack this thread and say that the captcha for some sites are really horrible. I literally could not read the tangled mess on the screen. I think the longest I tried was around 9 times.

Over the years I've been hit with this bug a few times.

As mentioned, usually going back and doing it again avoids the need to actually do it.

Happened to me to once or twice but very rarely and I have never been locked out.

I just got it recently a couple times. Never seen it before this past month.

Annoying one was yesterday, wrote up a long reply in the FO4 forum, hit Post, got the captcha, did it...... and it threw my post away. Just stuck me back at the general forum level. (Didn't realize I could just go "back" to recover. Ah, well.)