I'm not a sodding Robot, alright?

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).

 

 

 

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??