I understand the purpose of having a capcha system, and don't begrudge one being in place. But when you used SolveMedia service, for a while at least, we had to watch a noisy fifteen-second commercial (often the same one over and over again), which became unbearably annoying. Giving you guys the benefit of the doubt, I assumed no human being who actually uses the Escapist site implemented this policy.[footnote]I was basing it on the way that Activision's persistent online connection DRM was approved entirely by people who never touch computer games, and was used to promote sales of market shares, to people who generally don't touch computer games. Perhaps it is cynical of me to expect at the top of The Escapist is yet another a board of directors full of old men in a smoke filled room who joke about how much we squares will pay or endure to get our sweet, sweet gaming fix.[/footnote] I was merely pre-empting the possibility (which then seemed immanent) that the unbearable commercials were going to return.Kross said:
Ah, but it did get your attention, did it not?
It is true, and I do have a terrible habit of posting tangentials as footnotes in my text, often because I think they're interesting, even if they're not on topic. I figured footnoting it as a disclaimer to my fellow Escapists as a footnote to my sig would be reasonably inoffensive.
Sadly I don't, not being in the market for capcha services and having no idea regarding the technical particulars of any given one. I assumed the ones that perfectly differentiated man from machine were too difficult to implement at the embedding level, or something like that, which is why you returned to the service that sometimes gives false negatives, requiring a successful confirmation but not providing the embedded window. I reported these events. Lately, there haven't been problems so I presume them solved, but I am still wary that you may decide to run the commercials again.
Personally, I've never had problems with the one used by The Escapist before SolveMedia, so I can only assume that it was others who were having problems.
238U.[footnote]In the event that Escapist requires me to view a commercial before getting a code, I will simply not post. Depending on the frequency, this may temper or cease my future participation in the Escapist community. Apologies in advance, if this policy prevents me from replying to you when it is proper to do so.[/footnote]
PS: I have dreams of someday joining the PubClub. Sadly, in my current impoverished state of affairs, it is not today.
PPS: I was wrong. It didn't accept my capcha and then sent me to a fixit page where it demanded one but provided no window by which to do so. And then going back, the post button was greyed out.
