worst abuse on PA ever
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Topic: worst abuse on PA ever
Posted By: Sean Trane
Subject: worst abuse on PA ever
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 01:42
that bloody f**ken Captcha garbage Get rid of this thing for f**k's sake !!!  |
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 02:35
Here! Here!  ------------- What? |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 02:57
Seconded. Some of the spam is way more entertaining than tonnes of the garbage that gets posted here anyway  ------------- 
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 03:20
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If this sh*t keeps going like it's going right this minute I'm seriously giving thought to finding myself a new music site online. Kills the fun. It is unbelievably irritating and furthermore leaves one feeling unsafe whilst communicating with other members 'am I about to lose my post/will it go through/nahh access denied'. Cannot be right that most other sites can run without these robot tests and we can't. Yep might as well look around RYM for new kicks. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 03:56
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M@X has lowered the setting for the frequency of captchas a couple of days ago, did anyone at least felt the difference? |
Posted By: Thatfabulousalien
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 04:51
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If I get a cappachacha pop up when I post this message I'm going to f**king kill myself again ------------- Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV. https://www.soundcloud.com/user-322914325 |
Posted By: DamoXt7942
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 04:57
Will break my computer displays again and again before doing my post.  ------------- http://www.facebook.com/damoxt7942" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: DamoXt7942
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 04:58
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historian9 wrote:Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 05:01
Sure. I felt it for the duration of an evening. Now it's back with a vengeance - especially when I post from my laptop...and my laptop is pretty clean. I stopped surfing for porn long ago. I now use binoculars thanks to my nextdoor neighbour  Seriously though George I can't think of any positives this new implementation has brought with it. Spammers still frequent the site - even whilst Max had the setting on high. To me it seems like fishing for trout using boomerangs. Wonderful tool sure but not really meant for fishing. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 05:05
| Unless this gets fixed the forum will die. People will not put up with such sh*te forever. |
Posted By: Kepler62
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 05:06
| I just got it this morning. Sometimes I just say f**k it. I don't go to many sites but none of them have this nonsense. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 05:08
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Oh and in addition o my earlier post: I'd much rather nuke the odd spammer a couple of times a day than continue this tomfoolery. It takes a second to eradicate a spammer - years to heal the loss of a well-written post. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 05:36
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03AIezHSbMP05fSLJNpmNHiOOOAcJKiuu_7JXjv44JcOnq-EnEtoX9Z7TX-EhxAfuuqc31GuSMIxNpAeJvUcKGbQZJg9J-IngGR0pordq0cvdvxYa6gXMp6eFhyd1EDLQJDS9WfHpN7oSKUm2r7WZvilZ8T070JAcz3X_IotBc5IeCQhH1TwkVIBEhocfwbs-1ZQyPB8fc6V0LK26_T1ZbnvCMhJg_j8JwyR-juQsuxu7RpxGc5DdC2Er6cOVV38IJL40qMq0Uj7RrQatK4CkFh3TlBtk4aDo4B7mGpN6Dx2QLquiAd9uSpYQ 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!!! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 05:58
5 minutes maybe, but it's been back with a vengeance since 
Absof**kinlutely  coz when this crud system wipes out a post, it's usually a long one and well-thought-out (well I think so, you heathens  )...And I've simply not taken out the time to write them back... PA's loss as much as mine, really!!!
 
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Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 05:58
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I take it you're half tongue-in-cheek there Micky as Max doesn't make money off this site...if so it is not the amount that earns you the right to stop working irl. I think this robot non-sense is a case of being overprotective. Kinda like Kansas pulling out of their European tour because of future terrorist attacks. On here the terrorists are merely substituted by malicious spammers. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 06:26
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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. |
Posted By: Quinino
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 07:05
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Max, are you there? See what you can do, this is going the wrong way. There has to be a different solution ! |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 07:24
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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 |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 07:55
I get it, usually on my first post for the day. But, in my case, I don't write much or link things to my posts, so I can only imagine how all you out there feel with this sh*tty CAPCHA arrangement. What a dumb idea 
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 08:08
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. -------------
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 08:10
I also believe also he's not making money from PA or the sister sites.... and that's precisely why he shouldn't use us as guinea pigs to try out this cruddy spam detector thingie on us, so he (M@X) can install it on his more sensitive sites.
yup, also had this since this morning |
Posted By: TeleStrat
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 09:38
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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).
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 10:01
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And I thought I was the only one being targeted by that assinine thing ... lol ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 10:45
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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. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 11:32
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f**kING ACCESS f**kING DENIED. f**k YOU f**kWIT
------------- What? |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: May 13 2017 at 11:49
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^ You cheeky funkster. "Funk" and "funking" is acceptable. Not to negate your feelings of exasperation, you have the right to be funking angry. ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Kepler62
Date Posted: May 14 2017 at 18:57
I sense ANGER I'm pretty much done with this robot nonsense as well. |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 14 2017 at 19:06
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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. |
Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 14 2017 at 23:10
......and we still get those 'live-life' spammers intervening regardless of CAPTCHA  ??Go figure....... |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 15 2017 at 02:25
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thing is thaty it gets nastier as time goes along... Capcha = spam
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Posted By: Meltdowner
Date Posted: May 15 2017 at 04:21
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 06:19
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I haven't posted much lately because of this, let's see if this works.
*Edit* - yep, straight in, no pictures of road signs.
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Posted By: DamoXt7942
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 07:03
F**kin' CrAPTCHA cannot block any Indian spammer at all.  ------------- http://www.facebook.com/damoxt7942" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 07:34
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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 |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 10:28
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^ especially since it doesn't really block spammers. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 10:42
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This will mark the end of this website ------------- 
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Posted By: Larkstongue41
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 11:43
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Everyone's complaining and the captchas only seem to be increasing as I got my first ever ones yesterday. I don't know who takes care of this thing, M@X or whoever the hell it is but ARE YOU F*CKED IN THE HEAD? Ban me here I don't even care anymore you're killing your own site. There's already not much circulation on the forum these days and you're doing everything in your power to destroy it for good you tabarnak de moron. J'espère sincèrement que tu lis ca M@X pis que tu vas avoir assez de bon sens pour comprendre le message. ------------- "Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar." |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 12:59
| For some reason I get no Captcha when posting from my iPad. But using it for anything other than short posts is a pain in the arse. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 13:13
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One letter posts rules! ------------- |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 13:22
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 13:25
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It appears even John/Mellotron Storm has thrown in the towel. |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 13:26
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It's a right-wing plot to destroy the prog community (they saw the words 'progressive' and 'rock' and freaked-out) ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 13:28
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and as always, they will fail miserably. ------------- |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 13:40
I get nothing on my iPad, either. No problems with posting, or reviews. Most strange....... ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 13:42
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Thanks Obama -------------
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Posted By: Thatfabulousalien
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 15:04
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ------------- Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV. https://www.soundcloud.com/user-322914325 |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 15:54
So, a typical Steve Jobs conspiracy to force progsters onto Apple hardware
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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 16 2017 at 22:13
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I'm appearing in InfoWars with Alex Jones to talk about this ProgArchives conspiracy... -------------
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Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 01:46
Right address, wrong theory. I think this was imposed on M@X due to a design discussed at 2015's Bilderberg meeting which was attended by three bigwigs from Google. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 01:53
Same here but editing posts on the iPad is a pain in the arse, and when you're a dyslexic who makes word-errors that need correcting in practically every sentence I type that's a mighty big arse. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 02:09
Craptcha is also meddling in when posting reviews??   |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 03:58
He was last seen here on 19 January, more than 9 weeks before those CrAPTCHA's appeared. -------------
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 05:04
| ^ He's put reviews up since then, I'm sure. Maybe he doesn't frequent the forums much. Hope he's fine. |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 05:15
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No, his last review was from before even then, on the 15th of January for the recent Promenade album. Really hope he's OK, he's absolutely one of the most valued members of the site and a damn good fella, plus the front page could always do with more of his reviews.
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 06:17
| Wow !! Time flies. |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 06:28
Yes, but one of his last statements was about how he "couldn't post or do anything here" (paraphrasing) because he kept getting error messages on everything he tried. Capthchas aren't the only frustration. The site has performed like sh*t for a while before them. |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 06:41
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^Agreed. I remember a time, sometime before the captcha's, when the site was hardly reachable. -------------
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 07:02
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^ You can read his comments about the site, in the first paragraph of his final review. John was the first guy on PA to write to me as a friend when I started here. He was a great ambassador for the site. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 08:34
he last posted on Prog Ears two days ago. I don't think he's pissed off at PA
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Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 08:44
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Not pissed off, just obviously frustrated enough to call it a day here since January. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 08:59
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Hoping you are not expecting any form of recognition from high places, guys. ------------- |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 09:05
Naturally. We know better  |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 10:44
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Web hara-kiri...... ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: DamoXt7942
Date Posted: May 17 2017 at 17:03
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^ hara-kiri is not beautiful even in Japan. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/damoxt7942" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: May 18 2017 at 04:45
Why not though? Shouldn't a site admin/owner (of any site, not just this one) be more involved? ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: May 18 2017 at 04:46
Three posts this morning and captcha-cha-cha'd two times 
------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Thatfabulousalien
Date Posted: May 18 2017 at 05:20
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I can only spam this thread so much, I can't think of anything to add to this discussion. I've made photoshops, spelled the alphabet backwards, written book-long essays on why I hate cappachacha, what more do I need to do to be accepted into the robot community? ------------- Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV. https://www.soundcloud.com/user-322914325 |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 18 2017 at 06:37
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aaaaaaand the saga continues. Captcha lapcha snapchat poptart pappy-t doctor two Ali's left noodle. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: May 18 2017 at 08:03
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If a retired admin can't get no respect what are the chances for us mere mortals!! Do it for the children!! ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: jayem
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 06:29
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If robots are meant to pass as registered members in order to spam, putting all the captcha/not-a-robot test features at registration should secure it all for good. Maybe things are not that simple ?... ------------- http://www.digger.ch/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - Support mine-clearing ! https://bandcamp.com/machinechance/?lang=en" rel="nofollow - bandcamp collection |
Posted By: Kepler62
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 06:30
| I just don't bother anymore with re-posting when I get that robot sh*t. |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 06:46
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I log in from time to time - write a post or two - see if this sh*t continues....and sadly it does. I'm at a point where I seriously fear for the site. Less and less traffic combined with a massive drop in reviews all say the same thing: 'This is bloody annoying - I better find myself somewhere else to chat about music' Rest in peace PA - you used to be a lot of fun. ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: ALotOfBottle
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 07:18
Daaaavid, nooooooo!  ------------- Categories strain, crack and sometimes break, under their burden - step out of the space provided. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 07:44
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^ Oh no. If Divine has given up, what has it come to? Does anyone know why M@X doesn't deal with this? The situation on MMA is even worse. I mean what's the point of having these sites going if they aren't functioning properly? Is it simply not profitable? I can't imagine that being the case if it were run properly ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Finnforest
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 08:10
And there you have it... The million dollar questions, valid ones for a long time now. |
Posted By: mechanicalflattery
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 11:34
| And as Captcha takes out half of us, the reduced traffic and discussion will drive away the other half... |
Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 11:36
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Is anyone else thinking what I'm thinking? M@X is a robot, and he's preparing for the robot takeover of Earth.
------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Tuzvihar
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 12:13
Hey, it seems to be less troubling as of today.  ------------- "Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent." Charles Bukowski |
Posted By: omphaloskepsis
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 18:35
| I vote...Get rid of it. |
Posted By: Thatfabulousalien
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 18:46
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Can we just make a poll about it? Do You Love Capachacha? Yes - 80% No - 15% Undecided - 5%
------------- Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV. https://www.soundcloud.com/user-322914325 |
Posted By: Aussie-Byrd-Brother
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 18:54
I don't know, I kind of feel the evil of it has been totally exaggerated. So it's occasionally annoying (no doubting that), but a deal-breaker for being active on the site?  Because I now expect it, I simply highlight and COPY whatever I'm doing each time, then if I have to get stopped by It That Shall Not Be Named and have to go back, I just PASTE it back in and try again. It usually doesn't hit two times in a row. I know it shouldn't have even come to this point, but it's pretty easy to adjust to. |
Posted By: Kepler62
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 19:37
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f**kEN f**kEN f**kEN f**kEN f**k !!!!!!!!!! That's all I have to Say !!!!! f**k!
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Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 19:50
Hear, hear. I sure as heck am not enjoying having to fill out captchas, but they're a mild inconvenience at worst. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 19:54
Yep. Must be the epitome of 'first world problems' y'all.... -------------
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 20:08
I've had it hit like 5 times in a row before and still can't post emoticons. At that point, I just say f**k it. I'm not saying I'm going to be leaving the site, but this is more than a minor inconvenience really. ------------- 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. |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 20:15
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M@x is actually not a M@n but a Rowboat ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 20:53
^ And here's the proof. A siting off the coast of Albania  ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: May 21 2017 at 23:05
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I got an access denied message yesterday for the first time. I gave it four goes, kept getting it, gave up. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Kepler62
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 04:29
| I bet if you're on a site that's collecting money you're not going to get this sh*t. |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 05:08
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It may or may not be a mild inconvenience, or a larger problem for some but that's missing the point. What it is, is a completely unnecessary action that annoys the regular users and doesn't really keep threats away. I said it before. There has to be a better way. ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 08:43
It's about time too  |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 10:21
Ooh, that hurts ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: Quinino
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 13:16
I agree, Michael, it's really annoying but not impossible to accommodate. I guess it's a security trade-off M@x has certainly considered beforehand, otherwise why have bothered in the first place ??? |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 15:20
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A coup d'etat is brewing... -------------
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Posted By: zravkapt
Date Posted: May 22 2017 at 15:47
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^I would say a mass exodus instead. ------------- Magma America Great Make Again |
Posted By: Guldbamsen
Date Posted: May 23 2017 at 05:52
I get your point Michael but it shouldn't have to be this irritating to frequent a music site - especially since this new nuisance basically has no function other than arbitrarily erasing one's posts and demanding that you prove your carbon based existence. It does not stop spammers + the usual robots that frequent PA never really posted and I don't see that changing in the future. But, and this is the part that pisses me off the most, there has been no official explanation nor rationale on why this thing was implemented in the first place. We, the people who actually use and run the site, are merely left with speculation. Is this out of caution? Is it a business thing ie profitable? Was it forced on Max? ------------- “The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: May 23 2017 at 06:36
I've tried reading up a bit on Google's Captcha software David, and as far as I can tell, it is a FREE service offered to site owners and web administrators but is not compulsory. It identifies the browser being used, the user's IP address and looks for cookies which will identify any historical activity as inherently 'human' Google also claim that the software is sophisticated enough to distinguish mouse movements made towards the "I am not a robot' check box as human or by machine. No, I've no idea how they do that either and yes, Google are therefore monitoring our every keystroke online. There is an article on Wired (albeit it's 3 years old) which explains some of the background http://www.wired.com/2014/12/google-one-click-recaptcha/" rel="nofollow - http://www.wired.com/2014/12/google-one-click-recaptcha/ I believe that originally the hugely irritating picture galleries we are assailed with was designed just for smartphone and tablet users but that no longer appears to be the case. -------------
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: May 23 2017 at 09:29
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test ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: tszirmay
Date Posted: May 23 2017 at 21:31
ads between reviews ------------- I never post anything anywhere without doing more than basic research, often in depth. |
Posted By: The T
Date Posted: May 24 2017 at 07:18
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It is getting to be a nuisance to post in this forum. -------------
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