Cloudflare.... *sigh*

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Except that when I enter the captcha code, it usually just goes back to my editing page in which I wrote my comment and it never get's posted.

Copy each and every message before you hit submit. It's what I've been doing for a long while. Exception is short posts like this.

I find the best technique is this:
- type your post
- copy your text
- refresh the page (before clicking Submit)
- paste your text
- click Submit

Often this avoids the Captcha issue altogether.

[EDIT:] I just realize that's exactly what the people above me were saying... Oops

there are different better capatchas out than the impossible ones, some have you click pictures and some just have you click a button confirming you are human

Yes, this technique hasn't worked out too well for me because if I'm quoting someone who has either a video or link in their quoted text, it doesn't matter how many times I re-submit the post, it always triggers captcha and every time I complete the captcha, it still goes right back to my editing page without my post being submitted. Often the only way that my post will ever go through is when I remove the video or link in the quote.

Sometimes it takes 10+ times but I've never had a post not go through, even videos or links.

I've given up with links, maybe if I tried 10+ times,

the whole thing kind of a shame

The first try always works for me, unless the Captcha image is too dark to read; and then the recycle function is easy to use, as well.

I think it's caught me maybe 3 times in the last week.

Keep posts short, simple, and lacking in profanity; don't go back more than once to re-edit; and don't use terminology that you wouldn't want your mom or the TSA to see.

Doesnt work.

As stated before, Cloudflare glitches out all over the place with stuff like that, much of the time. The bizarre part is, while various users might get glitches, it seems to be random as to WHICH glitches they get. I've heard of other glitches that people can get commonly, yet I've never seen once, and the other way around.

In my case, simply refreshing doesnt work and sometimes just borks the whole page.

The only solution: finish the stupid captcha, watch as it "deletes" the message once the text-entry part of the forum is reloaded, and then I hit the back button twice, which redoes the entire message, hit submit again, at which point it may flare up again, doing the second captcha ACTUALLY submits it, or it may glitch out so freaking hard that it doesnt do it again at all (???) even if I were to, say, add a huge chunk of text (I tested this once by adding four huge paragraphs of gibberish, and then trying to preview it, since the preview glitch is EXACTLY the same as the submit one).

And again, it gets me even when I do a short post. And I dont really use profanity; I tend to do that only IRL, and only when I'm by myself.

But the main thing that gets me isnt that... it's that it ignores the bots that hit this site, and of all of the sites I go to, and I do mean *all* of them, this site gets the most obvious bots I've ever seen. The ones where even an absolute idiot cant POSSIBLY mistake them for real users. Or even real users that happen to be rather strange. There's a bot rampaging on the general section as I type this, which has posted topics that are so obvious, the very TITLE should set off any well-designed security service. But Cloudflare isnt one of those, so it ignores them.

Also: Recycle function likes to glitch out too. But even if it doesnt, there's no excuse for it to be wanting an entire (often long) word, yet with a pic so zoomed in that you can see only two letters.

It's just... so pathetic.

It works for me. It works for others. It does not work for you.

I give up. Good luck.

the capatacha or whatever has been coming up way too much in the last week or two, I have lost replies to it

I know we'd probably need a nuclear physicist to do this apparently but maybe put that prompt on the reply page instead of redirecting? Other sites do it...

Yes, I made a new thread about this earlier today (I did not know this thread already existed).

Type post/reply > Preview/Submit > Cloudflare > Submit authentication code > Page refreshes > My content has vanished.

(Let's see if it happens again, now...)

When this happens to me (quite often), I hit the back button twice and the browser restores the content of my message from its cache. I am using Chrome on Windows 10. Might not work with all browser/OS combinations.

>>And it just happened again! I got a nice easy captcha, but then it didn't post and cleaned out the "message body" field. So I hit back twice and added this message.

Why can't the powers that be use a different security package other than this pos called cloud flare? I'm looking at new messages and there's tons of spam again just ripe for a dos attack

i don't think security and antispam is cloudflare's primary function.

but i too have wondered why it works like it does.

I'm sorry, I don't understand....what is its primary function?