worst abuse on PA ever

CPicard wrote: I just tried to reply to someone in a thread, using the "quote" option: each time, I saw a nice red message saying: "Acces denied"... Isn't there a way to take PA off the hands of M@X? Must we migrate en masse to ProgEars? Or trying to buy a new PA brick by brick?

^ congrats. what's your secret? 

^A cold comfort that I am not the only one who suffers from this. I had to writhe my way through a quite a deck of poor quality images earlier this day: 46 clicks, Access denied, post again and then a dozen more .

I've been having much worse than usual problems the past couple days as well.  No posts get through without at least 2 permission denied screens and I've been run through check box hell multiple times 

^ thanks, I'll give that a try 

I've read that it hits people more depending upon what kind of sites they visit (for instance, those who frequent porn sites might get hit harder by Captcha).

That said, there does seem to be little rhyme or reason to it. For a long time after it was implemented, I wasn't getting hit at all. And now, despite my efforts (and I don't visit porn sites), I get hit a lot (at least I don't have to remember to save posts as I can just backspace and keep trying, or go back to my post and the text is still there). It's a pain, and I often have accessibility issues in different parts of the site.

I just quoted your post in the Malt thread and got in the second time around (first attempt was denied after three pictures)

Am I just dreaming here, or has this monster finally gone back to sleep? Early last week I was getting multiple CAPTCHA challenges one after another before I even got to one with a 'Verify' button (which of course would inevitably lead to an 'Access Denied' error, and thus mean that the process would have to be started all over again). It had become impossible to post with the Chrome browser at all, and only possible with IE11 if I kept it to purely plain text.

Wow - let's hope so! I thought the chances of this ever happening had gone for good though back in mid August after the site was off-line for several days following ongoing SQL injections - none of which the Cloudflare CAPTCHA defenses seemed to be able to stop. Maybe M@X finally came to his senses as a result of this and realized the whole CAPTCHA thing was pointless anyway!