EDIT: Karol beat me to that point.
I will add, I can understand why you'd want to ask this question - I have more trouble understanding why you wouldn't check if an answer was already avaialble. Your other thread, too, has been covered ad naseum in the forums - don't make a habbit of this. If you need help understanding the available information, then by all means start a new thread. But don't start a new thread because you don't want to check whether there is information already available.
]]>There's a reason for the registration question to be the way it is though.
]]>Of course, it's not exactly a representative sample since you have no information about the people that decided to seek answers elsewhere. Take my opinion for what you will - which may not be much
You are right; it is not a representative sample. Your opinion, because it is constructive and thoughtful, is welcome: I was just providing you some more context around how we ended up here.
]]>My general experience with forums is that people very rarely change their opinions through discussion. It's actually a quite natural human tendency and speaks nothing at all about the validity of the opinions nor about the characters of the individuals engaged in the conversation (see the article "How facts backfire" in the Boston Globe. It summarizes some research by Brendan Nyhan and Jason Reifler about how people actually become more entrenched in their beliefs when faced with contradictory facts. Pretty interesting stuff). I'm not trying to argue at all. I assure you of that. I just thought I'd offer my opinion as someone that does not have 1,000s of posts and may have forgotten what it's like to be new to the forum. I'm glad other new registrants have not experienced the same frustrating experience that I did. Of course, it's not exactly a representative sample since you have no information about the people that decided to seek answers elsewhere. Take my opinion for what you will - which may not be much
And by the way, I'm sure it must be extremely frustrating to try to deal with the spam issue. From what I can tell, you have struggled with how to deal with it and I'm glad you found a solution that works for you and the other members of this forum!!
Cheers!
@ewaller - thanks for the warm welcome. It's much appreciated.
]]>We were getting a lot of humans registering solely to pump the boards full of spam links. Introducing the question stopped that dead. There is very little incentive to make it easier for that scum to register and, relying on the amount of feedback we recieve about the difficulty of the question, little evidence that it is an undue inconvenience for the majority of genuine new registrants.
]]>First off, welcome to Arch Linux. Clearly, you did ultimately prevail
As a moderator, I assure you, I enjoy the lack of spam hereabouts.
BTW, this site emulates a machine running Linux in JavaScript. I believe it generates the correct hash.
]]>Or if you want to be a bit fun, ask what picture is the result of graphing y = .75x^(2/3) + sqrt(1-x^2) and y = .75x^(2/3) - sqrt(1 - x^2). All that is necessary is to copy/paste that into google.
I'm not sure these are effective suggestions, but all I'm suggesting is that surely there is something that would be easier.
]]>Sure, I did the live cd and all that jazz, but it was just one more frustrating thing on top of 2 days of frustrating things.
]]>This is the most fucked up registration form I've seen in my entire life.
If you do not see this, then you are arrogant and beyond hope
If you're willing to volunteer to read each post and look for spam 24/7, I think we'll be able to remove the question.
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