CAPTCHA Incident

The Captcha Incident was an event on TheTopTens that occurred early June 2019, when the admins implemented a CAPTCHA feature on lists and commenting in order to stop bot-voting. Just as the CAPTCHA feature was added, it immediately received massive backlash from the community, which shortly lead to removal of the feature.

History
The controversy started on late May 2019 when a controversial user named Demon_Kitty publicly revealed her password on Twitter. Shortly after, a user named ReltihFloda allegedly hacked her account and deleted it. This caused admin to add the CAPTCHA feature on lists, remixes, comments, and other features of the site "for security purposes". This caused massive frustration on many users and retirements, most notably Metal_Treasure (although it is unknown if he was affected by this, some have speculated that this was believed to have caused this) - users complained of difficulty making lists, due to the constant interruptions by the CAPTCHA puzzle popping up. Later around late August, due to the production of lists being disrupted as a result and user demand, admin shortly dismissed the feature, which ended the controversy. The moral lesson in this is do not reveal your password, and perhaps none of this would have happened in the first place.