If you were allowed to...

[squid5580]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

No not get rid of it because it does serve a purpose. No instead how about make the font normal and readable. Is there any reason for it to be a garbled mess of black squiggles that require a super secret decoder ring to decipher? If I can read it anyone else can read it so making it more difficult to read only serves to annoy.

 

[Jonluw]

How do you... How do you keep up with this?

I talked with Aylaine not too long ago, and she told me she was a full-mod now.

Aha. That sort of explains it.

 

[Sassafrass]

Edit: Another good idea would be having a display that shows how many people are logged on to the site at all times, like many other forums have.

I think this might be what you're looking for. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/online]

 

[Jonluw]

Edit: Another good idea would be having a display that shows how many people are logged on to the site at all times, like many other forums have.

I think this might be what you're looking for. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/online]

Hey, I didn't know that existed. It wasn't what I meant, though it was awfully close. If they just incorporated something that showed the number of users (and guests, perhaps) I'd be satisfied.

 

[Sassafrass]

Edit: Another good idea would be having a display that shows how many people are logged on to the site at all times, like many other forums have.

I think this might be what you're looking for. [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/profiles/online]

Hey, I didn't know that existed. It wasn't what I meant, though it was awfully close. If they just incorporated something that showed the number of users (and guests, perhaps) I'd be satisfied.

Ah, I thought I'd misunderstood what you truly meant when I posted that. Ah well, you've found something neat. Plus that list isn't truly accurate, the person I was PMing isn't on the list when I was checking it. But yeah, that would be a good idea.

Especially on Wednesday's, just to see the ZP rush numbers. XD

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

No not get rid of it because it does serve a purpose.

Yeah well, condoms serve a purpose but there is a time and place for it. I don't however see a reason for sporadic Re-Captcha spot checks for those that have been on this site for more than a year now. I mean if we were spambots, we must have horrible programming because I doubt anyone would invest such a period of time on an internet forum without making a spam post.

 

[FalloutJack]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming.

I'll get on that train. They're getting hard to read now. (Who decided to make them black and white like that?)

Aside from that, I would give myself the "Eliminate Troll" key, which would automatically summon the Banhammer. I tend to rattle their cages anyway by not giving them what they want, so I may as well blow them away once they have their fit instead of waiting for a mod to do it.

 

[JezebelinHell]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming.

I'll get on that train. They're getting hard to read now. (Who decided to make them black and white like that?)

Seriously who had the bright idea of hollowing out squished together letters? I do not mind having to do it once in a while but I am spending more time trying to find one I can read without messing it up than making my post sometimes.

 

[squid5580]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

No not get rid of it because it does serve a purpose.

Yeah well, condoms serve a purpose but there is a time and place for it. I don't however see a reason for sporadic Re-Captcha spot checks for those that have been on this site for more than a year now. I mean if we were spambots, we must have horrible programming because I doubt anyone would invest such a period of time on an internet forum without making a spam post.

It is for ad bots. If you have been here for over a year you must have encountered at least one.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

No not get rid of it because it does serve a purpose.

Yeah well, condoms serve a purpose but there is a time and place for it. I don't however see a reason for sporadic Re-Captcha spot checks for those that have been on this site for more than a year now. I mean if we were spambots, we must have horrible programming because I doubt anyone would invest such a period of time on an internet forum without making a spam post.

It is for ad bots. If you have been here for over a year you must have encountered at least one.

Em, Ad bots are spam. And yes, I have seen them on this site before. Your point?

If they have to use Re-Captcha for spam then implement it to the problematic demographic. Why punish everyone because of the actions of the few?

 

[squid5580]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

No not get rid of it because it does serve a purpose.

Yeah well, condoms serve a purpose but there is a time and place for it. I don't however see a reason for sporadic Re-Captcha spot checks for those that have been on this site for more than a year now. I mean if we were spambots, we must have horrible programming because I doubt anyone would invest such a period of time on an internet forum without making a spam post.

It is for ad bots. If you have been here for over a year you must have encountered at least one.

Em, Ad bots are spam. And yes, I have seen them on this site before. Your point?

If they have to use Re-Captcha for spam then implement it to the problematic demographic. Why punish everyone because of the actions of the few?

Can you create a program that would be able to do that because if you can then you should offer it to the escapist

 

[StriderShinryu]

A couple of changes that aren't exactly realistic but that I feel would improve the forums here immensely:

1.) A fanboy filter to keep fanboys of, well, anything from being allowed to post.
2.) A smart auto search tool that denied creation of a new topic if there already are topics within that strain (or if the "new" topic is obviously just something that should have been a reply to the original topic).

A few changes that would improve things and are actually realistic:

1.) An ignore user feature (assuming this doesn't already exist somewhere) that would blank out the posts of selected users to you just as if they had been banned.
2.) A front page friend activity feed. I never even look at the staff recent tweet wall or whatever it's supposed to be on the front page and would much rather have that space used as a listing of recent posts by my friends.
3.) More forum divisions. As much as I don't mind anime recommendation threads or PC help threads, to just name a couple of common ones, they really should have their own separate forum sections. This sort of thing would not only foster greater communities here around those more specific interests but it would also give people looking for discussion in those areas a place to look so they don't repeat threads, etc. As another helpful aspect, it would keep those discussions public while moving them away from those who don't want to be bothered by the niche interests that offend them for whatever reason. (of course, they could just ignore the threads they don't like, but this being the internet and all.. )

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

No not get rid of it because it does serve a purpose.

Yeah well, condoms serve a purpose but there is a time and place for it. I don't however see a reason for sporadic Re-Captcha spot checks for those that have been on this site for more than a year now. I mean if we were spambots, we must have horrible programming because I doubt anyone would invest such a period of time on an internet forum without making a spam post.

It is for ad bots. If you have been here for over a year you must have encountered at least one.

Em, Ad bots are spam. And yes, I have seen them on this site before. Your point?

If they have to use Re-Captcha for spam then implement it to the problematic demographic. Why punish everyone because of the actions of the few?

Can you create a program that would be able to do that because if you can then you should offer it to the escapist

If they can make us enter Captcha letters periodically based on a set number of post we made then I am sure they can make Captcha required only for those who registered recently. It's not a hard concept to grasp and one that I hardly need to develop and hand over to the IT team

 

[squid5580]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

No not get rid of it because it does serve a purpose.

Yeah well, condoms serve a purpose but there is a time and place for it. I don't however see a reason for sporadic Re-Captcha spot checks for those that have been on this site for more than a year now. I mean if we were spambots, we must have horrible programming because I doubt anyone would invest such a period of time on an internet forum without making a spam post.

It is for ad bots. If you have been here for over a year you must have encountered at least one.

Em, Ad bots are spam. And yes, I have seen them on this site before. Your point?

If they have to use Re-Captcha for spam then implement it to the problematic demographic. Why punish everyone because of the actions of the few?

Can you create a program that would be able to do that because if you can then you should offer it to the escapist

If they can make us enter Captcha letters periodically based on a set number of post we made then I am sure they can make Captcha required only for those who registered recently. It's not a hard concept to grasp and one that I hardly need to develop and hand over to the IT team

Sure it isn't hard to grasp. But I am gonna take a wild guess and say that bringing a concept like that to fruition is a wee bit more challenging. Otherwise I am sure they would have already done it.

You know since the alternative is they just did it to annoy people and that would make 0 sense. Since we are the ones who pay their bills and all.

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

No not get rid of it because it does serve a purpose.

Yeah well, condoms serve a purpose but there is a time and place for it. I don't however see a reason for sporadic Re-Captcha spot checks for those that have been on this site for more than a year now. I mean if we were spambots, we must have horrible programming because I doubt anyone would invest such a period of time on an internet forum without making a spam post.

It is for ad bots. If you have been here for over a year you must have encountered at least one.

Em, Ad bots are spam. And yes, I have seen them on this site before. Your point?

If they have to use Re-Captcha for spam then implement it to the problematic demographic. Why punish everyone because of the actions of the few?

Can you create a program that would be able to do that because if you can then you should offer it to the escapist

If they can make us enter Captcha letters periodically based on a set number of post we made then I am sure they can make Captcha required only for those who registered recently. It's not a hard concept to grasp and one that I hardly need to develop and hand over to the IT team

Sure it isn't hard to grasp. But I am gonna take a wild guess and say that bringing a concept like that to fruition is a wee bit more challenging.

Given that other forums use it for junior members seems to make me think otherwise. Also, it couldn't be as hard as their current difficulties with implementing a proper baseline re-captcha system. That and if they already have a code for tracking each users post count and bringing up the captcha after say every 20 posts, they can quite easily reset it to bring up captcha for users under, say 600 posts.

 

[squid5580]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

No not get rid of it because it does serve a purpose.

Yeah well, condoms serve a purpose but there is a time and place for it. I don't however see a reason for sporadic Re-Captcha spot checks for those that have been on this site for more than a year now. I mean if we were spambots, we must have horrible programming because I doubt anyone would invest such a period of time on an internet forum without making a spam post.

It is for ad bots. If you have been here for over a year you must have encountered at least one.

Em, Ad bots are spam. And yes, I have seen them on this site before. Your point?

If they have to use Re-Captcha for spam then implement it to the problematic demographic. Why punish everyone because of the actions of the few?

Can you create a program that would be able to do that because if you can then you should offer it to the escapist

If they can make us enter Captcha letters periodically based on a set number of post we made then I am sure they can make Captcha required only for those who registered recently. It's not a hard concept to grasp and one that I hardly need to develop and hand over to the IT team

Sure it isn't hard to grasp. But I am gonna take a wild guess and say that bringing a concept like that to fruition is a wee bit more challenging.

Given that other forums use it for junior members seems to make me think otherwise. Also, it couldn't be as hard as their current difficulties with implementing a proper baseline re-captcha system. That and if they already have a code for tracking each users post count and bringing up the captcha after say every 20 posts, they can quite easily reset it to bring up captcha for users under, say 600 posts.

Which brings us full circle to if it is so easy why don't you offer them the code to implement such a system?

 

[Kaboose the Moose]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

No not get rid of it because it does serve a purpose.

Yeah well, condoms serve a purpose but there is a time and place for it. I don't however see a reason for sporadic Re-Captcha spot checks for those that have been on this site for more than a year now. I mean if we were spambots, we must have horrible programming because I doubt anyone would invest such a period of time on an internet forum without making a spam post.

It is for ad bots. If you have been here for over a year you must have encountered at least one.

Em, Ad bots are spam. And yes, I have seen them on this site before. Your point?

If they have to use Re-Captcha for spam then implement it to the problematic demographic. Why punish everyone because of the actions of the few?

Can you create a program that would be able to do that because if you can then you should offer it to the escapist

If they can make us enter Captcha letters periodically based on a set number of post we made then I am sure they can make Captcha required only for those who registered recently. It's not a hard concept to grasp and one that I hardly need to develop and hand over to the IT team

Sure it isn't hard to grasp. But I am gonna take a wild guess and say that bringing a concept like that to fruition is a wee bit more challenging.

Given that other forums use it for junior members seems to make me think otherwise. Also, it couldn't be as hard as their current difficulties with implementing a proper baseline re-captcha system. That and if they already have a code for tracking each users post count and bringing up the captcha after say every 20 posts, they can quite easily reset it to bring up captcha for users under, say 600 posts.

Which brings us full circle to if it is so easy why don't you offer them the code to implement such a system?

Ok, you obviously lost the plot here. Let me rephrase: I can't offer that which i don't have. I can only tell them. i.e. make a suggestion but it is finally up to them to decide what's best. I don't know what the technical specifications of the Escapist server is like, that is something the IT team would know, so ONLY THEY can implement a specific Re-Captch system.

Telling me to make the code and give it to them is like me building a new shuttle for NASA because I think they need to upgrade their existing shuttles.

I can't possible do that as much as I like to.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Also a separate forum for more serious topics like gun rights, relationships etc that aren't to do with religion or politics.

But gun rights and relationships are all about politics? Aren't they?

Relationships are about politics? Guy meets girl in bar situation doesn't seem to be too political

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

I nominate that bold idea but for other reasons. Those being to stop elitism, (Seen it happen) stop the unwanted followings, (Seen that happen) get rid of the insults, (Happened to me the other day and to others) generally get rid of the behaviour about it and to of course, get rid of comments like "I don't watch it." which people use to bump it up. [sup][sup]Admittedly mine's stupidly high but I keep the nonsense to FG's. It's fun there.[/sup][/sup]

Oh, and also get rid of re-Captcha.
The one for this post was "swinings two".
[sup][sup]This post was sponsored by Dr. Who. [http://roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/celebrity-pictures-tennant-pop-up.jpg] XD[/sup][/sup]

This has nothing to do with whats being discussed, but I have to say, You're avatar is godly. Then again, it is of Jesus H. Cox, M.D.

 

[squid5580]

Calling it now, "Get rid of Re-Captcha" flood incoming

Personally, I find user groups to be a bit..iffy. I don't see any benefit of having them outside a few special cases (like in the RP and forum games section). I would also make post counts redundant, that would at least hamper people making crappy comments just to increase their post numbers.

No not get rid of it because it does serve a purpose.

Yeah well, condoms serve a purpose but there is a time and place for it. I don't however see a reason for sporadic Re-Captcha spot checks for those that have been on this site for more than a year now. I mean if we were spambots, we must have horrible programming because I doubt anyone would invest such a period of time on an internet forum without making a spam post.

It is for ad bots. If you have been here for over a year you must have encountered at least one.

Em, Ad bots are spam. And yes, I have seen them on this site before. Your point?

If they have to use Re-Captcha for spam then implement it to the problematic demographic. Why punish everyone because of the actions of the few?

Can you create a program that would be able to do that because if you can then you should offer it to the escapist

If they can make us enter Captcha letters periodically based on a set number of post we made then I am sure they can make Captcha required only for those who registered recently. It's not a hard concept to grasp and one that I hardly need to develop and hand over to the IT team

Sure it isn't hard to grasp. But I am gonna take a wild guess and say that bringing a concept like that to fruition is a wee bit more challenging.

Given that other forums use it for junior members seems to make me think otherwise. Also, it couldn't be as hard as their current difficulties with implementing a proper baseline re-captcha system. That and if they already have a code for tracking each users post count and bringing up the captcha after say every 20 posts, they can quite easily reset it to bring up captcha for users under, say 600 posts.

Which brings us full circle to if it is so easy why don't you offer them the code to implement such a system?

Ok, you obviously lost the plot here. Let me rephrase: I can't offer that which i don't have. I can only tell them. i.e. make a suggestion but it is finally up to them to decide what's best. I don't know what the technical specifications of the Escapist server is like, that is something the IT team would know, so ONLY THEY can implement a specific Re-Captch system.

Telling me to make the code and give it to them is like me building a new shuttle for NASA because I think they need to upgrade their existing shuttles.

I can't possible do that as much as I like to.

Exactly the point. You don't know what it would take. So to sit there and say they have intentionally implemented a system that is not in the best interest of the site without having a clue what it would take to implement a better system is utter foolishness.