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JKI

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Posted: May 02 2017 at 04:17

Test

chopper

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Posted: May 03 2017 at 07:26

It might be interesting to know if posts have declined since this captcha nonsense started.

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Posted: May 03 2017 at 07:32

^Sometimes I get the "No access"-message after a manifestation of this captcha nonsense. This happens about always on the first captcha after a login and often after a longer interval between two posts. I am getting used to copy and paste the message before posting.

Edited by someone_else - May 03 2017 at 07:33

Tapfret

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Posted: May 03 2017 at 10:36

I keep getting "choose all photos with street signs" which consists of a single photo spread over 5 squares that it will never accept. It will do that three times in a row before showing a legitimate set of options.

micky

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Posted: May 03 2017 at 12:23

I still f**king hate Captcha....

aglasshouse View Drop Down

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Posted: May 03 2017 at 13:37

Captchacaptchacaptchacaptchacaptchacaptchacaptcha

I'M SEEING STREET SIGNS IN MY DREAMS

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Replayer

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Posted: May 04 2017 at 00:21

I tried editing one of my album reviews and got past the Captcha, only to get the following message: "You cannot edit others review or ratings" Confused

Figures, I got a permissions error while submitting this post.

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Posted: May 05 2017 at 03:05

f**king Captcha

Angry

Lost another long post (in the Roger Waters thread), because I forgot to copy before sending and that bloody robot screwed up (as usual (asking for mountains and wanting you to also check hills)

MAX, JS: can you please get rid of this frigghing crap, PLEASE!!!

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Posted: May 05 2017 at 03:25

tell us how you really feel Hugues LOL

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Posted: May 05 2017 at 03:27

Bwahaha, and now I'm even getting Captcha stops for the `preview post' pop-up box!

Where's that old `banging your head against a wall' emoticon we used to have on the forum?

chopper

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Posted: May 05 2017 at 05:34

I'm going to use this one instead.

If nothing is done about this soon I'm going to stop posting my usual incisive and deeply meaningful posts.

"Please click on all squares containing a vehicle".

Is that a whole vehicle or just a bit of a tyre? What about the road sign with a lorry on it?

ffs.

Edited by chopper - May 05 2017 at 05:41

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Posted: May 05 2017 at 10:41

^ yeah, that's probably the worst part about this. Not only are the options bullocks, even if you somehow get the right answers you still get the access denied page.

Also, congrats to all of you that can post emoticons! At least I can quote people now so that's nice.

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Tapfret

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Posted: May 05 2017 at 10:59

Originally posted by Aussie-Byrd-Brother

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote:

Bwahaha, and now I'm even getting Captcha stops for the `preview post' pop-up box!

Where's that old `banging your head against a wall' emoticon we used to have on the forum?

rushfan4

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Posted: May 05 2017 at 11:14

If it is M@x's goal to get us all to leave then this CAPTCHA thing is the perfect plan. My daily posts have dropped off significantly.

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Posted: May 05 2017 at 16:25

Cappa-cappa-cappa-cappa-cappa-cappa Cha-cha

Sing it with me:

Cappa-cappa-cappa-cappa-cappa-cappa Cha-cha

Classical music isn't dead, it's more alive than it's ever been. It's just not on MTV.

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David64T

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Posted: May 06 2017 at 04:26

js (Easy Money) wrote:

This is a test.

Testing what happens with this message quoting text.

This will help me decide whether to bother with writing up a review in another thread which fell over (I guess now due to CAPTCHA).

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Kepler62

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Posted: May 06 2017 at 04:45

Why is this the only site that has this annoying feature? Why dioesn't the webmaster do anythingh about it?

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Posted: May 06 2017 at 07:18

https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy

micky

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Posted: May 06 2017 at 09:33

Kepler62 wrote:

Why is this the only site that has this annoying feature? Why dioesn't the webmaster do anythingh about it?

In another thread Keshiro mentioned this might be something not limited to Prograchives but sites that use whatever forum software we use. Keshiro is pretty stand up..and a helluva of a guy.. even for a f**king admin LOL

so I'd take him at his word. The lack of any explanation of that.. especially the absence of our dear forum owner in explaining just what the f**k is going on with this site.. is likely attributed to a) this site was nothing more than a money maker for him so as long as the clicks and traffic persist.. he is happy and b) the site has long been on autopilot.. as long as the clicks and traffic persist.. what is the problem LOL

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Posted: May 06 2017 at 11:15

I'm 99.99999% sure that this issue is nothing to do with the Web Wiz Forums software that this site uses.

I checked three other (much smaller) forums that use the same software (version 11.01) by doing an advanced search for the keyword 'captcha' over the last six months (I didn't actually register to post in these forums - just used the familiar 'search' facility that we have on here)...and not a single result was returned from all three searches. If they were having similar problems to us, I'm sure there would have been a whole heap of hits returned for this search. The three forums I checked were:

http://forum.zemigame.com/forums.html

http://forum.brandonsuffolk.com/default.asp

http://forum.voicecomputer.com/default.asp

Just for information, Web Wiz Forum version 11.01 was released on 10th September 2014, and there have been nine updates to it since then, with numerous improvements and bug fixes (version 11.08 alone contained no less than 51 changes!) The latest version (11.10) was released on 21st March 2017.

It appears that it's just us that are suffering all this crap, and I am absolutely certain this problem can be easily fixed if M@X can be arsed to do anything about it.

Edit: Ten failed attempts to post the above using Google Chrome ('Access Denied' each time), so I switched to IE9. It still gave me a captcha to solve, but allowed the post to go through first time without a problem after I'd completed the test.

I have now searched the above three forums for the word 'robot' too, and again not a single hit was returned in any of them.

Edited by yam yam - May 06 2017 at 11:28