For the love god, PLEASE STOP with the CAPTCHA.

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I'm going to have to take a vacation from the forum, if this doesn't stop. Please, somebody take some action to resolve this crippling problem! I have tried to post in several threads this morning, and was stopped by the captcha, and then after entering the characters, my posts disappeared and I could not re-paste them even though I had right clicked and saved. I'd hate to see the whole site lost because of this, and honestly I'm a very patient man, and if it's getting me this irritated, I'd say it's serious.

With all due respect but with a little contempt at this point, Charles

I have seen sites introduce over-the-top verification systems like this and have their traffic significantly release as a result.

I don't think the IP address you post from is such a major factor. I've posted (including this post) from two static IPs that nobody else uses but me (and which are definitely not infected with anything!) and still got the CAPTCHA.

It's basically a poorly worded, misleading error message - I hate those. CloudFlare believe, rightly or wrongly, that in most cases the cause of the problem is malware, but they write the message as if they know it's malware in this specific case. To a user who knows little about how CloudFlare works it can be quite damaging as they would then waste time trying to get rid of the "malware" and needlessly worry about their data.



The loss of text, at least, can be helped - see sig link.

I'm quite sure Alex is working hard on providing a solution to this problem using his customary site management technique:

If spambots are creating accounts to spam, wouldn't it be more effective to screen the signup process instead of every other post? I've owned forums before and have had my fair share of spambots/spammers but I've never had to do anything accept secure the signup and login processes with a captcha. In fact, most forum software automatically include those options these days, whether it's simply a site specializing in forum hosting or someone providing just the software, most come with anti-spam options.

If this version is rather old, I'd recommend updating it, like, yesterday. It might just solve the problems this site has.

I like the way that he replied to my comments in that other thread about WP violating international copyright law (which the phpBB team can - and have - confirmed) .... but only to spread disinfirmation in an effort to try to cover his ass..... he hasn't actually done anything about it, and appears not to even have bothered to read this topic while he was here.

How much is CloudFlair paying you to pimp their worthless crap? Yeah you are right. It does a lot more. Like making a lot of money for them, by forcing people to translate digital books for free.

Generally if you type the Cloudflair CAPTCHA wrong ten times in a row (try it yourself), it lets you post anyway. You don't think that SPAMers can figure that out?

Finally, do you really believe that you are an objective person to comment on the worthiness of the CloudFlair service when on your own webpage CloudFlair is listed as a partner of yours?

Last edited by Max000 on 23 Jul 2013, 8:21 pm, edited 2 times in total.

I am encountering them while posting, that is all.

This is why I always copy it to the clipboard or even save it as a text file on my own computer at ease before I continue and I don't see why I should rush myself in order to get the post there as quickly as possible, as long as the post itself is correct to me.

At this point, I have been running the numbers... it seems that the captcha only really kicks in when the quote function is used... at least on my end

^^ and when the edit button is used, I ran into that earlier.

It seems mainly random to me now, though I generally quote people simply for clarity when posting. (except this time)

That seems to be the case with me too, and even when I try to copy something, AFAIK.

Happens in PM's too it seems. Though that could be because I quoted someone in it lol.

The Captchas don't even work for me anymore. Once I go through them, I get "no post mode specified."

Every.

Single.

Time.

It's gotten to the point that when a Captcha comes up, I just close the window. I can't be a part of that topic, because nothing I can do will get my message posted.

Remember when this site worked?