i was giving what the answer probably was before he added the rest and i bet i was right.. he either put gas or gasoline or both. and unless they want their bot on this forum really bad i don' tthink they'd have it set up to answer the questions just to sign up to these forums.

Actually bots nowadays are designed to get past the image verification so they get through most Invision and vBulletin boards. The only way they can get past the Q&A is if the bot developer programmed it to be able to answer the specific answers for this forum. That would take some effort and I can also decide to change the Q&A to stop the bot again.

Trust me, its not smart to remove that.

There are a lot of bots on the internet searching for sites and forums to crash or spam.

If you dont have image verification some bots with register on your forum and make hundreds of spam topics to viagra sites and stuff like that. (and since they are bots they make those threads pretty fast...)

If you dont have image verification in search some bots with search a few hundred times a second to crash your server.

So, its smart to keep it.