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micky

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 15:22

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^Can I get a gavel and a name tag??

fail... you ain't cut out for the Council... Heart

you should have asked if you got a complementary gun and a knife... or had to provide your own

which is why the Council of 5 will be heavily stacked with the former AR hit squad. They get first dibs and offers. We knew how to kick ass, drink beer, chase women (and men!), have fun and yet no one did harder dirtier thankless work for this site.

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 15:15

Tuzvihar wrote:

Count me in as well, Micky!

And let's "Make Prog Archives Great Again"!! LOL

I knew I could count on your vote and support Bartek. Heart

you know I love ya man... they were great times we had building the site... and we built one hell of site for those years. Must see forum viewing to see who got gunned down while one was asleep.. or who blew a tire at some forum outrage. Most of those I suppose were at my hand.. directly or via my capos in the Art Rock hit squad...

now it is time to bring back the great times... now we need to build it anew...

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Edited by micky - June 21 2017 at 15:16

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 15:08

it could be gone as soon Scott as the payment clears... it is up to you all. Don't be that forumite... don't go Republican on us.. don't bitch about how broken the system is.. yet continue to elect the fools the broke it.

write M@X.. tell him to SELL.. SELL... SELL...

if you are reading M@X. Because I like you and do owe you my greatest and most cheerished victory over Ivan. I'll give you s special offer. Sell to me by Labor Day and I'll toss in a case of your favorite beer.. though I suspect you are a Budweiser kind of guy haha... and the best part.. the phone number to a certain sex crazed... if completely unstable redhead with a penchant for kinky sex when in a good mood and tossing pots and pans with great accuracy at you when in a bad mood.

Act now man... hear the cries of the forumites here... they beg for salvation.. SELL.. SELL ...SELL.

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 14:52

I tried posting DIO's Angry Machines album cover in What Are You Listening to Now? thread. Rejected multiple times. For some reason, CAPTCHA does not believe that I am not a robot. Might have something to do with the Angry Machine on the album cover....which is even angrier since it can't be posted.

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 14:46

Count me in as well, Micky!

And let's "Make Prog Archives Great Again"!! LOL

"Music is much like f**king, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."

Charles Bukowski

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 14:38

^Can I get a gavel and a name tag??

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 14:20

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micky wrote:

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..

welcome to Prog and Porn Archives... Your ultimate Prog and Porn Resource...

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....

Also add:

a section for us wetbacks (sorry Latinos or Hispanics) to discuss prog in our native tongue that way we can also bitch and moan about the site and others will not know what we are talking about.
Remove any reference to the Fab Four being "prog" , worthless krapp.
create a girls only section...really don't know why, but whatever....
No noobs can post till a) they pass a prog test b) been a member for 1yr c) they send nude pics of girlfriends, wifes, mistress, "the other woman" to the porn section of the site.

I'll do you one better Jose... I'll offer you the token minority position on my council of 5. I'll make you VP of wetback outreach, and VP of anything and everything SWilson related LOL

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 14:14

Shiny globe wrote:

micky wrote:

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.

Oh thank you, thank you! I miss a part on what anti-robots and other aliens system you'd replace captchas with, but apart from that

this is a program

My campaign pledge is get rid of the captcha sh*t.... ON DAY 1.... consider it like the Republican strategy with Health Care. I'll repeal captcha and worry about the consequences later... it works for our f**king politicans.. and the sh*t heads that vote for them.. it will work for you all

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 14:08

chopper wrote:

micky wrote:

welcome to Prog and Porn Archives... Your ultimate Prog and Porn Resource...

You get my vote micky, but this is going to make looking at PA during my lunch hour really tricky, I mean all those photos and videos, I don't want other people in the office to know I'm looking at prog.

I wouldn't know anything about that sh*t Alan LOL

When you are the big Mick.. you don't find porn.. porn finds you. It is a curse I know...

HOwever... I am making a campaign pledge that I will select someone who knows all about that sh*t to serve on the Council of 5. They'll make sure you can find porn without losing your job.. or your wife haha

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 13:59

Atavachron wrote:

^ I think he tired of it three and a half years ago.

you are too generous David...way longer than that... personally I think it was the backlash of the Torman Maxt affair that ended his dreams of earning money on the hard work of his volunteers haha. He was once involved and responsive.. in fact.. we got RPI due to his wisdom of breaking the trench warfare and stalemate that gripped the two warring nations in that battle royale. These days.. sh*t.. seems it is easier to reach Trump than it is M@X.

Besides.. he's is... was I suppose.. a f**king Dream Theater fan. what does he know.. or care about prog. Wink

It was about the money man... LOL

No wonder he's tired of it. Move aside M@X.. kudos for all you did..now retire and get out of the way and let me and crackerjack band (you all know who you are) take this site to the next stage of evolution. This site has been stagnant... walking dead.. cruise control for years. It needs fresh leadership...new vision.. new approach... otherwise this site will continue its long slow ride to irrelevance and death.

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 12:45

No captcha on the text for me.....it could be those conditions are correct.

Edited by dr wu23 - June 21 2017 at 12:46

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 12:45

test...test

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 11:22

"As far as I know, nobody is getting the captcha when posting plain text without quotes, links, images etc."

I'm getting captchas even when my posts meet those conditions...

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 11:13

As far as I know, nobody is getting the captcha when posting plain text without quotes, links, images etc. So how about we just disable all these fancy features that cause the captchas to happen?

Alternatively the current forum could be nuked and replaced with a BBS. This would have the further advantage of being accessible to people with dial-up modems.

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 10:43

micky wrote:

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.

Hell, at this point, why don't we just shift priorities altogether? I think it's been a long time coming since we've needed Southern Rock Archives to be a thing... Big smile

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 10:42

SteveG wrote:

"And what is truth?" said Pilate to Christ.

Just for the record, the snobs are not ganging up on you. You missed Trapfret's dis, which I found strange. Nothing more to it than that. Welcome to PA.

I didn't know about the use of "^" to refer to the above comment, and had thought of a typing mistake. The way I'd misunderstood his comment made sense. His dissing me suggested that his opinion was similar to Easy Money's, the guy that doesn't have problems and makes fun of other who have them, instead of backing suggestions for improvements.

As for having gangs after me, I'd flee rather than fight the whole World, but it all was something between Easy Money and me in the first place...

Thanks for welcoming me. I've seen you're suggesting a way to solve the test/authorization problems, so you're also waiting for the tech team to give us détails on why they prefer the current protection tool to what you and others suggested.

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 10:21

micky wrote:

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.

Also add:

a section for us wetbacks (sorry Latinos or Hispanics) to discuss prog in our native tongue that way we can also bitch and moan about the site and others will not know what we are talking about.
Remove any reference to the Fab Four being "prog" , worthless krapp.
create a girls only section...really don't know why, but whatever....
No noobs can post till a) they pass a prog test b) been a member for 1yr c) they send nude pics of girlfriends, wifes, mistress, "the other woman" to the porn section of the site.

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 10:08

"And what is truth?" said Pilate to Christ.

Just for the record, the snobs are not ganging up on you. You missed Trapfret's dis, which I found strange. Nothing more to it than that. Welcome to PA.

This message was brought to you by a proud supporter of the Deep State.

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 08:58

Replayer wrote:

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" !! Clap

At this, point SteveG replied

SteveG wrote:

Wacko

(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!

Convincing conclusion! The fact I felt it necessary to attack the other snob guy didn't help me understand Tapfret's reply that way. Thank you for going the distance and help me get closer to the Truth!!

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Posted: June 21 2017 at 08:48

micky wrote:

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.

Oh thank you, thank you! I miss a part on what anti-robots and other aliens system you'd replace captchas with, but apart from that

this is a program

Poll Question: Are captchas killing PA?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Yes.	34	[70.83%]
No.	9	[18.75%]
I don't know.	5	[10.42%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted