eBay and Gavel Snipe?

[swarmee]

eBay sometimes requires logon "captchas" to confirm that you're not a bot. Because while sniping bots can be used for good, bots can also be used for online theft or market manipulation.

I know in previous times when eBay would throttle the sniping websites, sometimes it was also due to passwords that weren't strong enough/ones that could easily be cracked because they didn't have enough variance. A couple of years ago, there would be one of these threads every couple of months because on some random Sunday nights, they would check whether the passwords being used were of strong enough quality.

They shouldn't be doing it so spottily. If they require a stronger password (like 16 char, 2 caps, 2 numbers, 2 characters), they should just require it for every login and force every account to log back in and change their password, maybe even annually.