I don't mind the captcha.
As the other Bernds above, I also want to see the outcome.
>automated or manual
Throughout the years I see one type of cp spam that I suspect to be posted by hand, I call it cp spam classic. There is a new one that I think is automated. And there is a third one, probably manual, and a fourth, ditto.
The original "lynxchan" captcha we run can be trained to be solved. So that is not a good deciding factor.