worst abuse on PA ever - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Here's an idea. Why doesn't M@X have a premium subscription option for a small annual fee? I'm getting sick of these ads popping up more and more and creeping into every freeking robot free crevice. I'd gladly cough up the dough. Similar to Rate Your Music. Add some perks like being able to decorate our profile page and add lists and crap like that. We'd eat it up like yummy treats

https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy

For my job I deal with, literally, hundreds of captchas a day (as a background screener I basically surf various court/gov sites all day long) some involving pretty elaborate effort, like flipping through 7 pages until completion or boxing a certain object.

I come here to unwind as always and after making a long post, I lose it because of the captcha. I used to copy my posts so I can just paste em if I lose it, but ya know sometimes I forget.

The issue does seem better, and I have less of the *do captcha correct, make post, error, post lost*but still... I'm not leaving the site or anything but this has been more than a simple minor annoyance.

siLLy puPPy wrote:

Here's an idea. Why doesn't M@X have a premium subscription option for a small annual fee? I'm getting sick of these ads popping up more and more and creeping into every freeking robot free crevice. I'd gladly cough up the dough. Similar to Rate Your Music. Add some perks like being able to decorate our profile page and add lists and crap like that. We'd eat it up like yummy treats

I'm not sure what you mean by 'crap like that' and what form any incentives might take, but wouldn't 'paying more' be tantamount to compensating the site owner for what has become a reduced service?

So is this captcha thing here for good? It'd be nice to know. If it is then I'm out of here. Found quite a few interesting music sites that don't feel the need to implement these stupid tests.

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I still think it's worth comparing the number of forum posts before and after these captchas were put in place. If site traffic is being impacted then surely M@x would do something about it?

Does anyone have access to do that?

chopper wrote:

I still think it's worth comparing the number of forum posts before and after these captchas were put in place. If site traffic is being impacted then surely M@x would do something about it?

Does anyone have access to do that?

That would be useful but no, we don't have those kinds of statistics.

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Edited by historian9 - May 26 2017 at 05:56

historian9 wrote:

I'm sorry to say that we haven't been able to help out regarding this issue, I sent PMs and threads which were ignored and Keishiro went an extra mile to contact M@X through other channels. Besides that one intervention which didn't fix anything we don't know why is this still in place and what are the reasons for not removing this, fully aware that we're losing activity on the forums and site, everyone from regular users to collabs.

Maybe he wants to close the site but not without people leaving it first.

Maybe if I buy the stupid Papa Roach album that keeps getting shoved in my face it will stop.

The ridiculous thing about this is I get Captch'd on my updated, secure devices and no problem on my open-to-the-world phone.

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^ as I've said...this is not a spam stopper. This is for some other purpose.

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historian9 wrote:

I'm sorry to say that we haven't been able to help out regarding this issue, I sent PMs and threads which were ignored and Keishiro went an extra mile to contact M@X through other channels. Besides that one intervention which didn't fix anything we don't know why is this still in place and what are the reasons for not removing this, fully aware that we're losing activity on the forums and site, everyone from regular users to collabs.

Appreciate the effort of Admin. Dumbfounded that the man on top does not seem to acknowledge the gravity of the situation.