Why do these images pop up to check in the midst of answering?

Why generalise? All people are different

Why do you put idiotic, sarcastic answers underneath people's questions? 

Hey, have you died yet?

Because you're a dumb cuck and a good reminder of why I don't date men.

TIt is used to reduce spam bot posting on the site which happened last year with massive attacks here. It's called a reCaptcha, from Google and has been in effect here since May 27 of this year. However, the 1-800 numbers are still getting through and posting some answers and comments. So it doesn't work as good as it should.

To Prove that you are a Human being and Not a Bot something new that Yahoo is Testing out Yahoo is trying to Control Spam and Bots and such Its not just you thats seeing them a lot of Other Users are starting to see it come up

To reduce spam bot posting on the site (there were massive not attacks here last year). It's called a reCaptcha, and has been in effect here since May 27 of this year.

It is a new anti-spam measure to prove that you are a human and not a bot. It is being used to fight spam on the site.

This is something new and annoying.

Yahoo has initiated this service to be able to differentiate between an honest poster and a spamming robot.

As with all social media today, Yahoo is doing this to "clean up" it's message and answer boards.

We know that the Russians advertised in Facebook in 2016 to get people to vote for Trump.

it's to prevent spambots who were less annoying than this "prevention" fix.