micky wrote: welcome to Prog and Porn Archives...  Your ultimate Prog and Porn Resource...

Guldbamsen wrote: I am so joyful now that I lost my bible length post! Yay Thanks M@X for this wonderful new implementation to the site. It's really a hoot. I know folks here tend to bitch and moan about all of this stuff, but it is surely better to protect oneself from 'malicious attacks' that most likely are out to steal all of our valuable info. Stuff like member's interests and real first names let alone all those bank and visa card codes that we all store somewhere in our profile. I thank you for your protection. Neato.

Back to the topic. I don't believe that members think that captchas are useless, David. Its just the way it's formatted, with the test occurring during posting instead of at the time we log in, like most sites. If M@X could change the test to when we initially log in, I think that everyone would be like this:

Shiny globe wrote: Mr Tapfret thinks nobody has made interesting suggestions in order to improve the situation. What would you try if you were the webmaster?

Shiny globe wrote: Tapfret wrote: ^But if they were, "unnecessarily provocative" would be a good place to start. "If they were" implies you think they're not.

It seems that you have misinterpreted Tapfret's comment in that other Captcha thread.

In that thread, you had said that:

Shiny globe wrote: Some are obviously trying to understand what those vicious threats are, it's bad faith to pretend they don't. Now I'm dead laughing – you're being that funny Mr "Honorary Collaborator" !!

At this, point SteveG replied

SteveG wrote:  (No words needed.)

Finally, Tapfret replied to SteveG's post immediately above his, as indicated by the "^" sign (pointing upward):

Tapfret wrote: ^But if they were, "unnecessarily provocative" would be a good place to start.

That is, SteveG claimed that no words are needed to describe your position other than his emoticon, to which Tapfret added that if words were in fact needed, then "unnecessarily provocative" would be a good place to start with.

Thus, in fact, Tapfret was not claiming that nobody has made interesting suggestions in order to improve the Captcha situation, but rather making a joke at your expense, hence why he said that the quote was taken out of context.

My point is: you shouldn't be upset with Tapfret for attacking the admins, you should be upset with Tapfret for making fun of your comment!

dead serious man....  the day M@X tires of this...  I buy it from him... and I do have strong ideas on what is wrong here.. and how to fix it.

Shiny globe wrote: You're being unnecessarily provocative (but to type this feels so unnatural I wonder how my computer allows me to type it).  Anyway I welcome anyone who finds a suggestion on how to improve that website.

well since .. I will be the new site owner when M@X gets tired of running this site into the ground.. hopefully sooner rather than later.  There will be changes....Here is the Big MIck's plan...

1) fire all moderators with extreme prejudice... this forum self moderates better than any moderators this site has ever had.
2) terminate genre teams with extreme prejudice... that served its purpose years ago but its time has come and gone for the site.  Open admission for bands... still have to be S.C...  ie.. you have to show you know prog rock.
3) single topic music sites are so 2007... so we expand the site to other topics... and what topic does prog fan know and love almost as well as prog rock... it does go hand in hand with most..

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and I'll be watching the website hits accumulate.. and ads? HAH!!!!   I dare even Genesis fan to use an ad blocker on my website..  the closest those losers will ever get to sex....

4) a long needed database project in which we invest the time to update this site to a different.. whatever.. whatever is needed to do tagging for albums.  NOte sure what needs to be done... I'd be the f**king owner... I wouldn't do the work.. I'd just sign the checks to make it happen.

5) oh yes....  my other major bone picking...  no f**king half stars for you reviews...  I do away with the stupid ratings period. It takes talent to review albums...  any f**king monkey had rate an album. Thus the whole process is f**king worthless and a joke...

6) on that note.. replacing the joke of a top album list with one worthy of the site.   A true top 100 list compiled not by fanboys and stupid ratings.. but by whatever f**king brain power is still left at this site.  Would have been an easier project back in the day.. but I think it can still be done


probably more than that....  but that would be a good start.  Yes...  the reign of the Big Mick was classic in the early days... if a reign of blood and terror was your thing.. but the second reign will be even better...

I'll save your f**king website....

Oh I see. A comment from another thread taken out of context. Nope, not falling for it.

^would you care to quote so I know what you are referring to?

ExittheLemming wrote: SteveG wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: Are disingenuous time wasting c.u.nt.s being inconvenienced by  CAPTCHAS?  (let's hope so) http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=104615&PID=5248228#5248228 Iain, what has brought about such venom? Let me re-emphasize my past actions. I got mad, I apologized and I was reinstated as a member. So... Let's go back to my long held view of your thoughts and opinions. They mean even less to me now than they did a few years ago. Close to zero as I recall.  If you can't co-exist peaceably with me on this forum, then please go to where ever a hot bag of wind like yourself can be appreciated. I honestly don't have a clue where that is, but there must be someplace for you on the internet. It is a big world, after all. And it may even be free of captchas. Btw Iain, fighting battles to avenge your friends is not your forte. You're too obvious and quite poor at it. Do yourself a favor and leave it to someone who can do it better. ;) You should never have been reinstated. You continue to behave like an unrepentant dick on every thread to which you deign to contribute. If I had been an admin at the time you were suspended you would never have survived the above quoted post. It seems that most of the 'cowards and mental defectives' as you describe the PA membership have turned the other cheek. I ain't.

Oh my, how will I sleep tonight? Do as you will, Iain. You'll get tired of it and leave eventually after doing irrevocable damage to your standing here. It's your call.

Edited by SteveG - June 20 2017 at 08:21

SteveG wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: Are disingenuous time wasting c.u.nt.s being inconvenienced by  CAPTCHAS?  (let's hope so) http://www.progarchives.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=104615&PID=5248228#5248228 Iain, what has brought about such venom? Let me re-emphasize my past actions. I got mad, I apologized and I was reinstated as a member. So... Let's go back to my long held view of your thoughts and opinions. They mean even less to me now than they did a few years ago. Close to zero as I recall.  If you can't co-exist peaceably with me on this forum, then please go to where ever a hot bag of wind like yourself can be appreciated. I honestly don't have a clue where that is, but there must be someplace for you on the internet. It is a big world, after all. And it may even be free of captchas. Btw Iain, fighting battles to avenge your friends is not your forte. You're too obvious and quite poor at it. Do yourself a favor and leave it to someone who can do it better. ;)

You should never have been reinstated. You continue to behave like an unrepentant dick on every thread to which you deign to contribute. If I had been an admin at the time you were suspended you would never have survived the above quoted post. It seems that most of the 'cowards and mental defectives' as you describe the PA membership have turned the other cheek. I ain't.

Kepler62 wrote: micky wrote: Killing it Steve?  Nah man... you can't kill what was already dead.  The site has been an animated corpse of its early days when people were involved, discussion (real discussion) ruled, and the site was populated with people who knew prog rock, not just fans of certain groups. The site and accompanied stench of rot and decay are merely the symptom of the larger decomposition of the prog rock revival and the internet scene that formed around because of it of the late 90's early 00's which spawned the site.  She's quite right. I'm pretty much done with the site myself. I've been insulted a few times by admins who seem to know nothing about anything.

Arrête, tu vas me faire brailler.