worst abuse on PA ever

I guess you're right Jose and I had even promised myself not to bitch anymore and just access PA via my phone. Now that that has flown out the window I resort to slinging sh*t. It just irritates the hell out of me that the site I love and have contributed to for so many years has deteriorated into this. I really miss a lot of our longstanding hardworking members who were far saner than myself in that they left earlier in the year. I on the other hand - like the dumb and naive schmo I obviously am - wait for things to turn around or at the very least get some sort of answer out of our owner yet nothing nada zip zeroooooo.
I understand you fully though as you are in the early phase of your PA stint and at that time I also looked positively on the absence of Max thinking we'd be fine and that we were well equipped to run the site. I certainly couldn't understand the sour grapes coming from old members. I feel a little differently today.

Yeah, the bloody frigging thing had let me mainly alone, posting without problems, but the last couple of days it's come back with a vengeance/// I even had a four-stage challenge

it's ridiculous, sure. I am trying to find my own way to take it, I will become accustomed to this or eventually give up ... we will see ...
login/logout very often, posting plain text as well as in any way possible, avoid links, pictures, quotes, emoticons ...

someone_else wrote: The best way to avoid captcha trouble is not to forget Ctrl-A/Ctrl-C before posting and Ctrl-V after access has been denied...

Easy for you to say. Not so easy at my age, I'm afraid. The other day I started drinking my bottled water before remembering to take the cap off.

someone_else wrote: The best way to avoid captcha trouble is not to forget Ctrl-A/Ctrl-C before posting and Ctrl-V after access has been denied (which occurs most often after the first captcha after login). This works quite well even with hyperlinks and images included.

That's what I do for every single post.  The only time I've run into a major disaster was a permission denied error on a 25 option poll...that was absolutely no fun

Hell, that is progarchives 2.0

Edited by YESESIS - January 03 2018 at 17:34

I don't know enough about your setup, devices or service providers (not that having such info would necessarily help me much to find the problems). I never allow third party cookies, so that hasn't been a problem for me. I have used ABP here and that has not been a problem. I use Chrome, Firefox and Safari to visit this site. My iPads, laptop PC, android phone and MacBook have all worked without such incident. And I've visited in Incognito mode without issue. You may have security software that is causing problems and it may have to do with your service providers. Best of luck, don't know about your phone, but with some fine tuning and alternate strategies on your 'puter, posting here from that perspective shouldn't be too much of a hassle, I would think. On my phone I have multiple browsers too, and some browsers work better with some sites.

This is not your issue, but I know what a hassle these things can be. At some old forum I belonged to I had to use an onion router (Tor) just to access the site as my path was blocked en route otherwise (it was either that or change my ISP or stop using that site, but I liked the site enough to want to persevere and I learnt quite a lot about how the internet works in the meantime).

Edited by Logan - January 03 2018 at 18:22

I've probably asked this before....but has anyone actually talked/e-mailed to the admin that did this....why does he continue to have captcha here knowing none of the members like it?