Technical Problems: Captcha erasing posts, MySQL

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So a few things I am having issues with.

I do tend to make long posts where I kind of pour my heart out. What I find immensely disappointing is writing an essay and then I get a captcha, only to click it and my post is erased. As in the next page is a "create new reply" page without all the words I wrote. ARRRGGH and then when I write it again, I have to do the captcha again and its hit or miss whether or not it will be posted.

I have also been getting lots of mySQL errors. I eventually figured out that using certain unicode characters, like emoji break it. This appears to be a bug. Instead of emoji triggering a generic error there should be a message saying that emoji or unicode are not permitted.

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For the first issue, I had that problem a few times before I realised that if you press your browser's 'back' button enough times, you can get your post back by going to the page where you originally wrote the reply.

It's still incredibly frustrating, but saves you from losing your hard work!

I always copy the text before I submit a post. That way, if I'm "Captcha'ed", I can just paste the text into a new post and submit it.

Even that is not always possible.

It has to be fixed. But it happen more often, that this forum has this disease.

Same here, except that when it happens I NEVER reach a stage where it actually posts.

I posted that last reply here with no problem at all after wrestling with this problem for 15 minutes on another thread. Went back to that thread just now... still can't post anything. Baffled.

This seems to happen to me when I attempt to quote somebody on a thread, but only then. All other posts seem to be okay.

...and it continues. I'm only asked to complete a captcha about a quarter of the time. My post has NEVER successfully gone up after a captcha, and that thread is effectively locked to me by the captcha loop for about a week after the last failed attempt. Makes conversation kinda tricky.

It blighted my life a treat yesterday. It's been a known problem for a long time, so why in the world has nobody in charge done anything about it?

^^ If the subject is raised as prominent news, then raising it in poll audience would require the backing of all.
If it suddenly becomes less of a view, it may be shifted on to areas where the status quo mix but don't necessarily match.

We can't all post threads to people who don't have a clue why it was implemented, unless the options were pointed out by some that it would save the injured job of moderating at a lesser level, but skipping the responsibilities and avoiding the status quo have marginalised and obliterated the entire forum of use for potential newbies and giving some of us an extra hard time.

You can moan all you like, until a new site leader comes on board to leverage out the options, then we might just find out one day, we have never met any of the criteria that the site currently misrepresents.