howdy again erikah! yes Ma'am well the new system was designed in part, to slow spammers and bots down and at least at first it has worked well in doing both of those things.
However, I have read that it won't take the bot makers long to work around the new system so we'll have to see how they do in the coming weeks. But I'm not a technical guy at all, this is just what I read that the new rc system objective was.
I do know a technical guy though, I'll ask him about it tonight and see what he says about it.