Why Do I Need to Do This?

Hackers and spammers regularly try to automate the process of creating user IDs in order to place messages on forums. The automatically generated name is what's known as a Turing test named after Alan Turing. Its purpose is to work out if the form is being filled in by a real person or a piece of software. Currently, the code is made up of random forenames and surnames of Town players but if ever cracked it can easily be changed.