Captcha madness.

[Monkeyman O'Brien]

Spoiler: Snippered for ranting.

Okay what the hell. I just noticed that captcha is now required for every single cunting post. I just had 7 in a damn row.
When the fuck did this dumbass idea get forced on us?
Once every 20 posts I could tolerate but goddamn.
And no, I do not buy the "it blocks spammers" excuse. This site is nowhere near popular enough to draw in that many spammers. This is clearly just a attempt to annoy the shit out of people and force them to buy the pub club.

Seriously guys, you want to piss off your users? Is that it? Because you know how that will work out.
The site loses even more users and those that do stick around install a ad blocker in retaliation.
You just had a article pointing out how stupid Ubisofts DRM is yet you seem determined to go down that same route.

Okay so I just had 7 captchas in a row.
The sites text quite often janks out and becomes unreadable.
People are complaining that the backgrounds make everything unreadable.
I am sick of every time I replay a video having to watch this damn KY jelly ad over and over again.
We lost the interesting side bar that people loved but kept the "Escapist on twitter" bar that I doubt anyone at all gives a damn about.
The Latest Threads section quite often craps out and does not update for like a half hour at a time.
And I am sure there are plenty of issues others are having that I have not come across.

Is anyone else getting annoyed with the site seeming to constantly be broken in one way or another?

 

[Esotera]

If you like this site's captcha system, you'd love 4chan. I don't have any problem with the captchas and I think the majority of people don't and are silent about it. They're not as sensitive as they could be.

I agree with you on the site feeling broken in one way or another though. I'm still not used to the new layout, although it does have some useful features (forum bar), and load times & black text makes the site harder to use on anything than the forums. Then again, that's all I use this site for.

 

[TimeLord]

The Tech Team are currently working hard to rectify the technical issues with the site.

Also you'd be surprised how many spammers we get. Most are ruthlessly killed quickly and easily though.

If you have any issues regarding the technical side of the site, the Tech Team group [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Tech-Team] is frequented by the staff members to answer any issues you may have.

 

[lRookiel]

Chillax bro it's to stop the spammers.

You could join the pub club? I don't get any captcha's or adverts :3

Also, nice new avatar TimeLord they get cooler every time :3

 

[Snow Fire]

If you don't like the site design or those pesky backgrounds, I'd simply recommend using a user defined style sheet, user defined styles take highest precedence.

[Lowest to Highest precedence (Inline Browser style sheet, external style sheet, embedded style sheet, inline styles, user defined styles)]

Also, Google updated the Chrome architecture to stop all ads from loading, even video ads. I won't mention anything more than that, but visit the Chrome web store as soon as possible, bound to find something useful there.

Can't really suggest anything for captchas, they are gross and nasty, and you just have to deal with them. X3

 

[Fishyash]

"This site is nowhere near popular enough to draw in that many spammers."?

I've seen virtually barren forums get absolutely flooded with spam bots. I've seen forums DIE due to spam bots. Do you want the escapist forums to die? Unless you can find a better alternative to stop spammers than take than 3 seconds of your time, the captcha is gonna stay.

 

[TimeLord]

The Tech Team are currently working hard to rectify the technical issues with the site.

Also you'd be surprised how many spammers we get. Most are ruthlessly killed quickly and easily though.

If you have any issues regarding the technical side of the site, the Tech Team group [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Tech-Team] is frequented by the staff members to answer any issues you may have.

WATCH MANU VS LIVERPOOL AT TOTALLYLEGIT.COM/NOSERIOUSLYNOTROJANSHERE

The thing that pisses me off about the captchas is that it seems like if you have more than one tab open, you will get them everytime. "Ooops! It appears you have posted elsewhere since you started typing this! Fill out this annoying captcha!"

*swings hammer*

That might be a good issue to take up with the Tech Team. I'm not computer whizz but by the sounds of it if you have more than one tab open when you post a post that needs a captcha then the site might not recognise that you've entered your captcha for the day when you switch tabs.

Like I say, no idea if that's true. Random guesses are cool!