What captcha?

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I've seen a few posts now that mention things about captchas. I don't need to need to complete a captcha to post anything.

Do you?

I only have to complete them sometimes. I haven't had to do them much lately, but they were really bad a few weeks ago. They seem to come and go.

Last time I specifically saw a CAPTCHA on this forum, was when I was trying to quote someone. Dunno if that was the issue at the time.

This was just 3 days ago.

Also:

Sorry, I missed the bus.

Sometimes none
Sometimes partial
Sometimes full
Sometimes twice
Sometimes an endless loop

Of course not, you only have 27 posts.
It doesn't activate for someone with less than 50/100 like it is supposed to.
It doesn't activate for spammers and bots like it is supposed to.
It only plagues veteran members who post regularly.

When I see the damn thing, I don't even bother trying to solve it anymore. I tried to do one of those 'Which ones are street signs' one time, solved it, was presented with the next, solved it, got another one, and just decided to drop it.

Now, whenever it happens, I just log out and walk away from it for a while before trying again later on.

I post via a smart phone, amd get it every damn time.

This is the only forum I have to play the captcha whack a mole nonsense.

I had to do it once yesterday. Other than that, not at all.

On my computer the captcha locks me out. On my phone I occasionally get captchas, but they're always easy.

I want the CAPTCHA to be removed if it doesn't work and prevents me from posting. If it works, I have no problem with CAPTCHA.

When I see it, I consider it as a temporary ban, and I don't like bans.

Havent tried to start a new thread lately so I dont know if thats a problem or not.

When I post in reply to a thread I get the captcha maybe two thirds of the time. Often I get the "someone else just posted in response so do you want go through with your post?", and THEN when I say yes,I THEN I get the captcha.


The problems comes when you quote someone else, especially when you delete most of their text to just respond to one sentence. That confuses the system big time. Recently tried to do that and the site just flashed the message "you can't post because you have been banned".

Later that day I posted on other threads- so it was clear that I hadnt been "banned". The person I had tried to quote is a bit of loose cannon, and I wondered if maybe THAT person had really been banned and the servers had gotten confused - and thought that I was that person. But that person also continues to post (obviously isnt banned either). So thats not what happened. It was just some random glitch.

Often when I quote someone I get the captcha- and then it lets me post- but it deletes my message (but keeps the quote from the other poster). But I do that trick - click the arrow to go back to previous windows - to find my text again - and hit post again. Usually it works- and your text finally gets posted. But one time my text still just got erased.

The only time I've had that come up is when I've tried to quote someone and reply to that quote. Otherwise, I'm able to post as soon as I hit the submit button.

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Judging by how Cloudfront (or Cloudflare or whatever it calls itself) treats me and many other folks on this site, it's some kind of spambot stopper that's either got a few grievous bugs or has just been written by somebody who doesn't care about the frustration and harm it does to genuine posters. It typically seems to affect veteran members attempting to make medium-to-long-sized posts, by making them complete "one more step" which starts as a simple checkbox ("I'm not a robot") and then demands another step (a rather difficult capcha puzzle), then another, and deletes a lot of what the poster has written, in such a way as to render it unrecoverable even by using the "back" button. And it still doesn't let the post go through.

The only workarounds I've found are to copy the post before hitting "submit" and then splitting the post into smaller chunks and submitting them one by one, with an apology for the split posting and a very brief explanation pointing to CLoudCrap as the culprit.

Sadly, although it's been annoying us for quite a while, nobody with enough power round here has fixed it or (AFAIK) responded in any way to the users' reports of the problem. If anybody wants to start a petition about this issue, I'd be happy to sign it if I'm made aware of its existence. It sucks.

Not just veteran posters. Happens to me too. A couple days ago I had to do it every time I tried to edit a certain post.

Can anybody think of anything we can do about it?

Find a website that consistently works properly.