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peppot
11-04-2012, 03:27 PM
Perhaps the "Do You Know Progressive Music?" could be changed to a more general purpose captcha of some sort? Instead of being, as it seems now, mildly excluding to people not aware of big-P prog or old guard or dinosaur bands or whatever...
Duncan Glenday
11-04-2012, 03:57 PM
I suspect at least 95% of PE members will know the answer. For the others - we'll be happy to tell everyone the answer to the question over on the old PE system. (Plus - Google would provide the answer in about half a second.)
Scott Bails
11-04-2012, 05:08 PM
Perhaps the "Do You Know Progressive Music?" could be changed to a more general purpose captcha of some sort? Instead of being, as it seems now, mildly excluding to people not aware of big-P prog or old guard or dinosaur bands or whatever...

No reason to change it, IMO. I've never been a fan of "Captcha," myself. Besides, as Duncan says...


(Plus - Google would provide the answer in about half a second.)

;)
inhortte
11-04-2012, 05:18 PM
How about a "What progressive music were you listening to when you (re-)joined ProgressiveEars?"
3LockBox
11-04-2012, 05:51 PM
The question is fine.
zombywoof
11-04-2012, 07:53 PM
The question doesn't show up on mobile, unfortunately, so I had to ask Sean what the answer was! I'm lucky I wasn't accused of being an imposter and booted off the PE island. :-)
IMWeasel
11-04-2012, 07:55 PM
the question should have been "What is Prog?" :ipa
NogbadTheBad
11-04-2012, 07:57 PM
the question should have been "What is Prog?" :ipaUnfortunately this is an unanswerable question. ;)
Duncan Glenday
11-04-2012, 08:33 PM
the question should have been "What is Prog?" :ipa

I needed a 1-word answer - not a 90-page thread! :O
Digital_Man
11-04-2012, 10:52 PM
I think the question is too easy. Besides, anyone can google it. I don't expect it to be something like "what was Steve Howe's dog's name" or something like that but still I think the question was just a tad too easy.
Duncan Glenday
11-04-2012, 11:41 PM
No - the question is fine.

These people have "bots" - programs that crawl the web and attempt to auto-register on every forum they can find. If the auto-registration fails, the bot simply moves on to the next forum. There (usually) isn't a human involved, and if there is, they would not bother - they'd just move on to the next victim and leave us in peace.
Sunhillow
11-05-2012, 01:39 AM
"what was Steve Howe's dog's name"

"Spinee"

Took me just a little more than half a second ;)
peppot
11-05-2012, 03:15 AM
It sure defines the age group and narrows the definition of progressive music... which I think will be a tiny treshold against getting new and younger folks to the boards.
Scott Bails
11-05-2012, 08:34 AM
You really think it will have that much of an impact?
Jerjo
11-05-2012, 09:28 AM
Nonetheless, on April 1st you could get sadistic by locking everyone out and then changing the question to something truly ridiculous. Ask for Lino's birthdate!
Dave the Brave
11-06-2012, 01:55 PM
Ask for Lino's birthdate!

Every day is Lino's birthday.
marinaorgan
11-07-2012, 06:16 PM
Only one question? There should be an thorough EXAM with grades before the general public are allowed into our hallowed halls. Keep out the riff-raff.
NogbadTheBad
11-07-2012, 07:28 PM
I'll get my coat
Scott Bails
11-07-2012, 07:47 PM
Keep out the riff-raff.

There'd be no one left! :O