worst abuse on PA ever

Things cannot last forever! I hope those immensely gorgeous archives will be kept safe somewhere – I'll send a memory device to whoever agrees to copy the whole lot on it, for me to keep.

Left a message to my landlord some weeks ago to tell him there was a problem in the apartment: He never called back.

Called my boss earlier this week to tell him there was an agressive f**ker who was making trouble at work: He told me that he had no time for it and to deal with it.

f**k 'em, I don't care anymore.

I'm sure that some people have just said f**k it. There are other Prog sites out there that are better than this one.

I'm sorry to say that we haven't been able to help out regarding this issue, I sent PMs and threads which were ignored and Keishiro went an extra mile to contact M@X through other channels. Besides that one intervention which didn't fix anything we don't know why is this still in place and what are the reasons for not removing this, fully aware that we're losing activity on the forums and site, everyone from regular users to collabs.

ExittheLemming wrote: siLLy puPPy wrote: Here's an idea. Why doesn't M@X have a premium subscription option for a small annual fee? I'm getting sick of these ads popping up more and more and creeping into every freeking robot free crevice. I'd gladly cough up the dough. Similar to Rate Your Music. Add some perks like being able to decorate our profile page and add lists and crap like that. We'd eat it up like yummy treats I'm not sure what you mean by 'crap like that' and what form any incentives might take, but wouldn't 'paying more' be tantamount to compensating the site owner for what has become a reduced service?

max i know you have a harem of women who just swoon over the combination of a web developer and a prog fan, but make some time for us okay

Yeah, I'm currently being inundated with ads for `available Russian women in your area', makes me look like a bit of a perve if I'm looking at the site at work, meaning I have to explain exactly what I'm looking at!

Besides, if they really wanted to exploit me and steal my money, the ads might want to propose `women with large rear-ends that look like dorky librarians in your area'..., in which case it would be:

I just typed a lengthy reply in another thread and lost it because of this security authorization screen.  I am unhappy about this.

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Guldbamsen wrote: Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: 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. 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?

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/

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.