TenPencePiece
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21 Jul 2013, 10:27 am
PrncssAlay
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21 Jul 2013, 10:56 am
TallyMan wrote:
In the meantime I'm spending more time exploring and discovering other interesting Internet forums and spending less time here.
Hopefully you will share any other good forums that you find.
21 Jul 2013, 11:00 am
PrncssAlay wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
In the meantime I'm spending more time exploring and discovering other interesting Internet forums and spending less time here.
Hopefully you will share any other good forums that you find.
I've just finished listening to a talk on radio Wzen.org. Possibly not everyone's cup of tea but certainly more restful and inspiring than tackling relentless Captchas!
21 Jul 2013, 11:16 am
spongy wrote:
Shatbat wrote:
I can think of only one solution at the moment...
E-mail Alex. All of us who are having troubles with the captchas. Put captcha and wp it somewhere in the subject line so even if he doesn't read them he'll know what they are all about. This is not a minor issue, it is annoying a lot of users and if it keeps going on it will drive them away, as Tallyman said. Some have already stated they will stop coming to WP until that problem is solved. I don't know id this counts as spamming, but I believe it doesn't; in the US the process of writing letters to one's representative or government is mentioned often enough for me to notice, and perhaps a high volume of letters will force him to take action sooner than he otherwise would, which could perfectly be way too late. He's late already.
I will begin writing a letter now.
E-mail Alex. All of us who are having troubles with the captchas. Put captcha and wp it somewhere in the subject line so even if he doesn't read them he'll know what they are all about. This is not a minor issue, it is annoying a lot of users and if it keeps going on it will drive them away, as Tallyman said. Some have already stated they will stop coming to WP until that problem is solved. I don't know id this counts as spamming, but I believe it doesn't; in the US the process of writing letters to one's representative or government is mentioned often enough for me to notice, and perhaps a high volume of letters will force him to take action sooner than he otherwise would, which could perfectly be way too late. He's late already.
I will begin writing a letter now.
While this may sound like a great idea it can be compared to harassing someone and you may have issues with wp/the law if you choose to go this way.
Not saying I dont share your frustration, just advising everyone to be careful on what they are getting into.
I d suggest those of us who have issues could go to a temporary forum and say so in our signatures et all, this forum would hopefully be managed more closely but Im not sure if the idea will catch on
WP Forum isn't a legally valid forum anyway, because (like I said before) Alex has stripped out the legitimate copyright information for phpBB ; and replaced it with his own sketchy copyright information - assumedy this is to make it look like he wrote the forum software himself, even though he clearly never did anything of the sort.
If the phpBB creators were to hear about that, well.... he could be in deep water.
That being the case, if Alex has any sense at all then he won't be running to the solicitor and making legal threats just because he doesn't like people notifying him about the sh***y state WP forum is in.
Just saying....
It's totally self-absorbed, inconsiderate and neglectful to behave as though it's fine to just leave the forum in its present condition, while ignoring everybody who's trying to contact him.
So yeah, my advice would be to go ahead and write Alex all of the letters you want about the pathetic state which the forum is in.
My understanding is that he's using an antique version of phpBB (ten YEARS old ! !!) even though the latest stable edition is less than a year old (and much better - obviously ! !!) , which is beyond lazy.
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21 Jul 2013, 11:16 am
21 Jul 2013, 11:21 am
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I don't think Alex has anything to do with the CAPTCHAs, it's from Cloudflare. Hopefully he can figure out a way to disable them.
Well, it was him who signed up WP to the Cloudflare / Captcha service in the first place.
It's easy to disable them ; for all but the most dangerous visitors to WP forum.
I posted about it before.
It takes no "figuring out" whatsoever.
It's remarkably simple to do, and would take less than two minutes from start to finish.
But, he does need to get off his duff and actually do it.....
21 Jul 2013, 11:31 am
TallyMan wrote:
PrncssAlay wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
In the meantime I'm spending more time exploring and discovering other interesting Internet forums and spending less time here.
Hopefully you will share any other good forums that you find.
I've just finished listening to a talk on radio Wzen.org. Possibly not everyone's cup of tea but certainly more restful and inspiring than tackling relentless Captchas!
That's excellent !
I'm not putting up with more stupid Captcha nonsense today, so I'm off to play Magic the Gathering over XBL ; because I find that rather restful.
Not half as relaxing as Zen radio though, I'm sure ! !!
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21 Jul 2013, 11:33 am
I can't hardly read those things! Every time I have to stop and go get my glasses. Then half the time I type it in wrong and have to do it all over again! Make Alex stop with that please.
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I'm giving it another shot. We will see.
My forum is still there and everyone is welcome to come join as well. There is a private women only subforum there if anyone is interested. Also, there is no CAPTCHA.
The link to the forum is http://www.rightplanet.proboards.com
21 Jul 2013, 11:36 am
OliveOilMom wrote:
I can't hardly read those things! Every time I have to stop and go get my glasses. Then half the time I type it in wrong and have to do it all over again! Make Alex stop with that please.
Chance would be a fine thing.
It looks like he's even ignoring the moderators for WP and sub-admins for the whole WP website.
It's certainly not just you who struggles with those demented Captchas.
Why can't we at least have the ones about putting tools into a box and suchlike, instead of these lame text-based Captchas ?
21 Jul 2013, 11:52 am
Ladywoofwoof wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
PrncssAlay wrote:
TallyMan wrote:
In the meantime I'm spending more time exploring and discovering other interesting Internet forums and spending less time here.
Hopefully you will share any other good forums that you find.
I've just finished listening to a talk on radio Wzen.org. Possibly not everyone's cup of tea but certainly more restful and inspiring than tackling relentless Captchas!
That's excellent ! I'm not putting up with more stupid Captcha nonsense today, so I'm off to play Magic the Gathering over XBL ; because I find that rather restful.
Not half as relaxing as Zen radio though, I'm sure ! !!Indeed, Zen is the logical course of action since there is nothing that we can do about the situation. Time to play some borderlands.
21 Jul 2013, 11:54 am
Borderlands for the win !
(does the Harlem Shake)
PrncssAlay
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21 Jul 2013, 2:14 pm
TallyMan wrote:
In the meantime I'm spending more time exploring and discovering other interesting Internet forums and spending less time here.
PrncssAlay wrote:
Hopefully you will share any other good forums that you find.
TallyMan wrote:
I've just finished listening to a talk on radio Wzen.org. Possibly not everyone's cup of tea but certainly more restful and inspiring than tackling relentless Captchas!
Perfect timing! The radio program which you mentioned (wzen.org) has downloadable podcasts which I will be able to listen to off-line. Thanks!
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21 Jul 2013, 6:50 pm
Now I'm starting to get the stupid CAPCHAs. 
22 Jul 2013, 7:45 am
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22 Jul 2013, 12:40 pm
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