I'm not a sodding Robot, alright? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

yeah.. that was the cat I was thinking of

oh by the way..a new one today

Saucers!!! was an easy one.. or conversely.. a hard one for Captcha to f**kya

aapatsos wrote:

Can't quite get that if you are already logged in the forum you need to go through captcha validation.... surely that should be easy to fix??

I'm sure it would be... as much as a love to hammer M@X.. I'll give him enough sense to fix it if was easy. On a hunch I'd say he simply doesn't know how... for years we have had 'admin' types that never posted.. never moderated but were purely computer geeks. Perhaps the site doesn't 'employ' them anymore and M@X's only talent is cashing the check that comes with owning the site.

I pretty much copy to clipboard any post more than 2 lines long before posting. I forget at the worst times.

This software is ridiculous. I cannot use emoticons, quote, or write anything more than a line without having to prove I am not a robot. And when I prove I am not, the software does not accept it. Get rid of this stupid thing!

The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"

Can't quite get that if you are already logged in the forum you need to go through captcha validation.... surely that should be easy to fix??

Spambots. That's the reason Captcha exists, it has nothing to do with security at all.

What's bullsh*t page popping up to see if you're not some kind of robot to permit access to post on the forum ?

Is this some kind of early April's fool or something??

Cos there is no way I'll keep posting from work >> can just imagine asking permission to your administrator at work to post on

PA??

Edited by Sean Trane - March 31 2017 at 06:39

As the message on the Captcha page implies, I suspect whether your post is intercepted by the Captcha software is dependant on the anti-malware software you are running on your PC.

If you have anti-malware protection that Google approves of then you'l never get a Captcha. Simples.

Anti-virus software has become an intrusive part of PC usage that in the main is more irritating than a virus because it's there all the time while I've experienced one viral attack in twenty-three years of being on-line. To date every threat my anti-virus software has ever reported has proven to be benign and harmless.

I'm cannot change my anti-virus software because it is installed and controlled on my PC by my employer's IT department via Group Policy. So at present I will begrudgingly tolerate the use of Captchas on this forum until they become so intrusive that I really cannot be arsed to visit the site any more. Getting Captchas when posting in reserved/private sections of the forum? That's intrusive and unnecessary. Getting a Captcha for editing my own post? Yup, that's also intrusive and unnecessary. Getting a Captcha for quoting someone else's post? Again, intrusive and probably unnecessary.

However, Captchas aren't a problem when they work. When one goes through and my post appears in the thread I'm bloody elated. But, as we've all experienced, it's when the post fails (regardless of whether we've answered the Captcha correctly or not) and the carefully written post vanishes - that's more than irritating, that's fu*king annoying.

So... are Captchas necessary on this site? Probably not. The problem of spammers is not alleviated by Captchas because most of them are not robots, they may be sweatshop slaves but they're not robots. Sure, the PA once got hit by a robot hack but it didn't get here by posting a message on the forum - it was an SQL injection attack that wiped out the database. A few of us who were online at the time acted quickly and rebuilt the entire site from Goolge's cached pages (little thanks we got for that btw).

What?

Damn...got dooshed again!! What is funny is even when I get the PA message, I am still being asked if I want to buy a Dell laptop....the ads don't get dooshed. Stern Smile

I'm done, will head off to another music forum till this gets addressed.

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Only members with sufficient permission can access this page.

^ Up to snuff would be a luxury; right now I'd take being able to post without playing tick-tack-toe with a robot-killer. And now my search function is gone-- completely blown.

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy