WHY DO I HAVE TO TYPE A CAPTCHA????

Discussion in 'Planetary Annihilation General Discussion' started by ehtom, October 27, 2013.

  1. ehtom

    ehtom New Member

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    This is absolutely ridiculous, I bought the game already...

    I dont think bots are shelling out $60 for accounts.

    Fix it!
  2. tatsujb

    tatsujb Post Master General

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    it's first 5 posts or something. same with posting links authaurisation. just post and it'll go away. the game is unrelated.
  3. zaphodx

    zaphodx Post Master General

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    You don't need to buy the game to make an account on the forums. It should be removed for people who have made a purchase in the Uber store though.
  4. brianpurkiss

    brianpurkiss Post Master General

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    You don't need to purchase the game to have an account. Anyone can sign up, so the captcha is needed and there is nothing to fix.

    The captcha will go away after you post a few times on the forums.
  5. slywynsam

    slywynsam Active Member

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    It goes away after like five posts I think?
  6. agmarstrick

    agmarstrick Member

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    Because you failed the Turing test?
  7. bytestream

    bytestream Active Member

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    The system doesn't work that well. Even if you purchased the game you still have to type the captcha and it also sometimes wrongfully tells me that I have a link in my text.
  8. BulletMagnet

    BulletMagnet Post Master General

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    That's when you quote someone.

    It's silly and dumb, but the links to other posts on this forum are also counted.
  9. bytestream

    bytestream Active Member

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    I actually didn't quote anybody. The board complained about two simple lines of text without anything special (i figured that out by editing my posting till it accepted it).
  10. KNight

    KNight Post Master General

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    You can manually pull that out of the raw BB Code;
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    [quote="BulletMagnet, post: 813221, member: 99"]That's when you quote someone.[/quote]
    Change it to;
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    [quote="BulletMagnet"]That's when you quote someone.[/quote]
    and it shouldn't have the link anymore.

    Mike
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