Change is bad

[Archangel]

Hi Melanie, and Lester,
This thread was intended to catch your attention and hopefully have others offer their opinions as well. I posted MY opinion, I simply do not like the hassel of verification, especially in light of the fact of the forum already requires a user ID and log in. For 98% it will not make "beans" difference, because they lurk but do not post. You do what you have to do, as you must. I posted the way I feel about it.
Anyone else have an opinion about this? Now is the time, before it gets made of stone.
BTW: Thanks for an otherwise Great Forum.

[Jerson]

I have no objection to another level of verification if it will prevent spammers 'digging up the past'. Many times their post just bumps a long dead thread into activity which may not be good after all. As for Captcha, many sites I use make it hard even for a human to read Perhaps a different way to authenticate - like print a proverb (random) and ask the user to type the third and fifth word (random) of the saying. Similar to captcha, but more human readable. What do you think? It's admins call after all.

[Luckyborg]

I have to agree with Joe and Jerson. It is quite a hassle to enter a password every time. Maybe scale it by number of posts. IE the first 10 posts require authentication every other posts, then every 5 posts and by the time you get to 100 or so, just accept all posts unless someone flags the user. Also getting something that is human readable would be much better as everything seems case sensitive and a "P" and "p" look a lot alike when they are random text sizes at 45 degree angles.

[mister_e]

If there's less spammers, and give less problem to the admins using that method, I wouldn't care at all to type a password then.

If there's an option for, User post counter could be used to determine if he's a spammer or not. On the other side, new users might find it a bit irritating.

I guess time will tell.

[Archangel]

Also getting something that is human readable would be much better as everything seems case sensitive and a "P" and "p" look a lot alike when they are random text sizes at 45 degree angles.

That is 80% of my complaint, I do not see that well anymore anyway.

[lester]

Considering the number of users on this forum and the number of posts over the last 24hrs the level of negative response seems quite low.

It would seem that users are:

• not bothered by the changes
• cant be bothered to make comment on the chnages (in which case i suggest that there not that bothered)
• cant actually cope with the changes and so cant post a response

maybe, a poll is required??

[Acetronics2]

Hi, Lester

I had to refresh the code once or twice, as my eyes ( despite a good pair of glasses ) couldnt read the pattern ...

could it be possible to have such "password" only once a session ??? ... a bit boring to repeat it at each post ...

I see in the upper right corner the Forum "Welcomes me" ... so may be , We could HAVE TO log in once a session ??? ... and automatically being log out when leaving ... ( time limited cookie i.e. ... )


Alain

[Byte_Butcher]

Considering the number of users on this forum and the number of posts over the last 24hrs the level of negative response seems quite low.

It would seem that users are:

* not bothered by the changes
* cant be bothered to make comment on the chnages (in which case i suggest that there not that bothered)
* cant actually cope with the changes and so cant post a response

I don't even know what's going on here... what's changed?
I don't seem to need to do anything "new & different" to post...


steve

[Byte_Butcher]

It would seem that users are:

• not bothered by the changes
• cant be bothered to make comment on the chnages (in which case i suggest that there not that bothered)
• cant actually cope with the changes and so cant post a response

It would seem that "Have not noticed any difference" should be added to the list.

I did like mister_e and posted a photo to the test area, but nobody asked me for any "authorization" to do it.

Perhaps it only targets certain browsers (firefox here), or certain IP addresses, or..?



steve

[Luckyborg]

They must have changed things around again, because I had to enter in the security code for a while each time I posted a reply or even to do a search of the forum, but now it is gone. I incorrectly entered the code 3 or 4 times for a single post as I couldn't read them correctly. Hopefully they found an easier way to get the security they wanted.

David