worst abuse on PA ever - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I'm on lots of boards and have been on lots more. None of them ever resorted to this captcha thing to stop spam. Why here? There has to be a better solution

We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain.

My face IS a maserati

I haven't posted much lately because of this, let's see if this works.

*Edit* - yep, straight in, no pictures of road signs.

Edited by chopper - May 16 2017 at 06:20

thing is thaty it gets nastier as time goes along...

Capcha = spam

I"m not really sure how this is meant to deal with spammers. I mean, this seems to be most aggressive with posting pictures, quoting others, or posting emoticons.

But yeah...if this could stop it'd be great.

Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.

^ You cheeky funkster. "Funk" and "funking" is acceptable.

Not to negate your feelings of exasperation, you have the right to be funking angry.

"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967).

For me it's been a bigger problem being targeted at this site outside the forum (like when I tried to write and edit a review). It's a shame, but this site does need security. Spammers are not as big of a worry as hackers, and spammers in the forum are easier to deal with than ones spamming the database.

I'm not a techie, so feel free to correct me, but I suspect that Captcha was implemented site-wide as an attempt to mitigate DoS or DDoS attacks. I was getting denial of service messages in the front-side part of the site before Captcha was implemented. I could generally access the fora, but the rest of the site commonly was inaccessible.

I do hope that a good solution can be reached ASAP.

"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967).

I stopped posting here a few weeks ago and joined a site that has more vinyl related topics.

I stay logged out but check in from time to time to see if that robot thing has been taken care of.

I will log out now for the last time until things change.

I miss posting here but this thing is more annoying than the American Politics thread (and that really is very annoying).

micky wrote:

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so that is next... enter the code.. and still rejects the post.

whatever...

I do have faith in our fearless leader to rid us of this madness. What I don't have faith in are us. PA's is like crack cocaine man. Still I come here.. still you all do. M@X removes this the second he sees his precious clicks and site hits go down. He makes f**king money from this site. Boycott it.. and then you'll see action.

f**k Trump.. f**k M@X.. f**k Progarchives. Join the revolution... stamp out ignorance and runaway greed

All we are saying.. is give spam a chance!!!

You sound like barnacle designing their 'dream ship'. I don't have a problem with anyone making profit from facilitating the PA resource for discourse and reference. Start up your own site that dispenses entirely with any prerequisite investment in terms of viability and see how far you get.

Edited by ExittheLemming - May 13 2017 at 08:20

Just posted this on the PSIKE team but more appropriate here:

This site is such a pleasure lately. It asks me if i'm a robot. I check the box. It asks me to check squares. I comply. It doesn't issue a verify button and i have to skip to do it again. I'm getting irritated. I check another series of boxes. Despite the friggin cars having tiny fragments in certain boxes, those don't count for some reason. Try again. I finally perform satisfactory for anti-robot protection services. It works. I instantly get a user error page and have to start all over. I try again. User not authorized. I refresh. Same. I say f**k it and instead of quoting start a new post. Refresh about ten times hoping it will finally take. Eventually success ensues as the morning is completely wasted away.

What say youz? Should we start our own site?

https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy

last straw here...

15 minutes to make a post. I'll be back when or if Captcha is removed.

not sure about the rest of you.... if you get the communication with Captcha error.. your post isn't going through. Enter the code.. still rejected... tried to bypass it it. ANd continuely skipped back trying to get a hole in Captcha.. it asked for it every single time. The pisser is.. you have to cut and paste the code.. and you lose the post you had saved if of course Captcha rejects you.. which it has every single time for me.

I'm out.. see you all on the bright side.