OMG... ProSoundWeb'd forums are pissing me off...

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Matt Vivlamore

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I was trying to send a PM to a member and CAPTCHA was pissing me off; after the ~10th try I gave up.

It took me about 3 tries to post a message and then 3 more tries to edit the message.

Why do they need so much "Verification" required for me to post messages and send PMs? You still need your full name to post or else it gets deleted.


Sorry, just ranting... Glad I made the move here.
 
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I find it frustrating as well.

It is a real shame that the transition was such a mess and that the current site there continues to be significantly inferior from the users perspective to the old site. I still recall the many threads of people offering to assist, suggestions for implementation, and the predictions of bad outcome based on the plan they enacted. "We told you so"......... is a pretty valid response.

Things on the recording forum unraveled much worse than the pro sound forum at PSW. The recording side is a total ghost town and they lost most of their moderators, some of whom were pretty well respected engineers (Ross Hogarth, Michael Brauer, Brad Blackwood, etc). Ross in particular had quite an exit rant about it.

Sad to see what a mess things became, though there is still activity on the pro sound side, I think its heyday has come and gone. Overall it seems to me that forum use across the community (on a variety of forum sites) has been trending downward.
 
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Matt Vivlamore said:
I was trying to send a PM to a member and CAPTCHA was pissing me off; after the ~10th try I gave up.

It took me about 3 tries to post a message and then 3 more tries to edit the message.

Why do they need so much "Verification" required for me to post messages and send PMs? You still need your full name to post or else it gets deleted.


Sorry, just ranting... Glad I made the move here.
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I have never had a problem sending or receiving PM's or posting.

Is there something I am doing wrong? I use regular internet explorer and Windows 7. Maybe that is the problem HA-HA
 
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You can never go home again... one door closes another opens... insert cliche here.

I am looking forward to 2012 being better the 2011...

merry happy...

JR
 
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I think the verification is only till you have "x" amount of posts. I don't get Captcha's there.
 
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I loathe Captcha with a passion - I almost never get it right and find it applied to the most mundane (but useful) websites -
datasheetarchives (source of chip info) has taken to using it - I'm beginning to regret chucking out my yards of dead trees
(chip databooks).
M
 
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Steve Hurt said:
I think the verification is only till you have "x" amount of posts. I don't get Captcha's there.
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That number is TWO.

By implementing Captcha we eliminated over 200 spam registrations a day. A small price to pay.

Mac
 
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mackerr said:
That number is TWO.

By implementing Captcha we eliminated over 200 spam registrations a day. A small price to pay.

Mac
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I wanted to "make a search" yesterday and was asked to add two numbers and dechypher some words in funny fonts. It was a little frustrating because I couldn't seem to get it right on numerous trys (I hope it was the writing and not the adding LOL). When I logged in the search stopped asking me riddles and all was good.

PS: The search actually yielded usable results so much better than the old site :)
 
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So, I guess they are trying to get everyone to leave so they don't need to fix any of the anoying stuff?

I just read a couple of posts over there, replied to one and then went to reply to another and got

"You have exceeded the allowed page load frequency."

That is a new one for me. I guess I will stop posting there.
 
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Rob Spence said:
So, I guess they are trying to get everyone to leave so they don't need to fix any of the anoying stuff?

I just read a couple of posts over there, replied to one and then went to reply to another and got

"You have exceeded the allowed page load frequency."

That is a new one for me. I guess I will stop posting there.
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Rob, I guess it must be annoying when you get that message instead of the banner ad that was supposed to go there. It was the ad that exceeded the page load frequency. It should have had no impact on your browsing of the forums, and is being fixed. It is pretty easy to post a message in the bugs and comments forum when you encounter a problem. It is more likely to get to the folks that need to fix the problem than just complaining about it in another forum.

Mac
 
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mackerr said:
Rob, I guess it must be annoying when you get that message instead of the banner ad that was supposed to go there. It was the ad that exceeded the page load frequency. It should have had no impact on your browsing of the forums, and is being fixed. It is pretty easy to post a message in the bugs and comments forum when you encounter a problem. It is more likely to get to the folks that need to fix the problem than just complaining about it in another forum.

Mac
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Mac, you are right. On the other hand I have never got a response to any post I made in the bugs forum.

If they would only add Tapatalk it would help lots. I sure like the folks who post over there but I also hate that the adds take 2/3rds of the window.
 
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Rob Spence said:
Mac, you are right. On the other hand I have never got a response to any post I made in the bugs forum.

If they would only add Tapatalk it would help lots. I sure like the folks who post over there but I also hate that the adds take 2/3rds of the window.
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The people who service the forums may not respond to your posts but they read them. Ernie is particularly responsive.

Tapatalk was installed Oct 27th according to the thread about it in Bugs and Comments.

Mac
 
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mackerr said:
By implementing Captcha we eliminated over 200 spam registrations a day. A small price to pay.
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I admin/moderate the Rat Sound board. We also implemented Captcha style sign up. But apparently the spammers have teams of real humans which necessitates manual approval of everyone that wants to sign up. I'm getting 20+ spammers a day trying to get accounts. It's easy to tell when reading their reasons for signing up which appear to be strings of key words that might trick a auto approve bot but make little sense when a real human reads them. Or the english is pretty broken. Things like "Admin, Im look for reading board & "hmm look for interested." It's getting old...

Greg
 
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Andrew Broughton said:
There's less intrusive and less labour intensive ways to fight forum spam. Many (including myself) offered to help but PSW had their minds made up and were not interested in help from the community.
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I don't think having to go through the Captcha screen a total of twice over the course of a member's participation in the forums is particularly intrusive, and it is really not labor intensive.

We still get a couple of spam registrations a week, but it is pretty easy for the mods to take care of that. The members are pretty good at telling us when there is a problem.

Mac
 
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mackerr said:
I don't think having to go through the Captcha screen a total of twice over the course of a member's participation in the forums is particularly intrusive, and it is really not labor intensive.
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Not really intrusive, but unecessary. The labour-intensive comment was for Greg - manually approving all registrations can be very labour-intensive on a busy board.
 
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Andrew Broughton said:
There's less intrusive and less labour intensive ways to fight forum spam. Many (including myself) offered to help but PSW had their minds made up and were not interested in help from the community.
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I suspect several of us would be interested in hearing of less labor intensive ways to fight forum spam... I am half thinking of starting a forum for my drum tuner customers and am apprehensive about the number of people that are out there already trying to hack my website. I see evidence of their failed attempts in my error logs.

Captcha is a PIA and I can pretty much give paying customers a free join, but non-customers will need to be screened. Of course it is more attractive to hack a higher volume website like PSW than anything I even put up...

JR
 
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