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Web sites that accept postings from the public, like Heroes Wiki, are sometimes abused by spammers who use automated tools to post their links to other sites. While these spam links can be removed, they are a significant nuisance and constitute vandalism on Heroes Wiki.

Sometimes, especially when adding new web links to a page, Heroes Wiki may show you an image of colored or distorted text and ask you to type the words shown. Since this is a task that's hard to automate, it will allow most real humans to make their edits while stopping most spammers and other robotic attackers.

Unfortunately this may inconvenience users with limited vision or using text-based or speech-based browsers. At the moment Heroes Wiki does not have an audio alternative available. Please contact the site administrator (admin at heroeswiki dot com) for assistance if this is unexpectedly preventing you from making legitimate posts.

Hit the "back" button in your browser to return to the page editor.