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[–]paul1149 6 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Thanks for the welcome. I just signed up. I did so because I love the reddit software, and further appreciate that you have remove the notorious downvote, which I believe poisons the positive sense of community.

I want to comment on the capcha hurdle that one must clear before signing up. It took me maybe ten different capcha before I was given one I could discern. My eyes are not that bad, though I am sensitive to eyestrain. I began to wonder if you actually want people to sign up. It was that bad. I came here with the thought of possibly starting a Lyme disease support community, but I don't think I can expect people, especially those with neurological challenges, to overcome that hurdle as I finally did.

I hope you will consider what I'm saying here. And in any case, glad to be here. Be well.

EDIT: I just attempted to post to a sub, and was confronted again with an impossible capcha. This is stunning. I simply will not be able to participate here. Shame. The site holds so much promise.

[–]magnora7[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Thanks for the feedback, glad to have you here. /u/d3rr is the one to talk to about the captchas. We had to make them difficult to prevent bot-registration which was becoming a problem, but it obviously shouldn't prevent normal users from signing up either, ideally.

The captchas go away after your account is a certain age. Are they really that bad?

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I'm happy to tone them down a bit. But this is only the 3rd negative feedback I've heard in 1.75 months since captcha was changed.

[–]magnora7[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Personally I've heard about 5 different people. I hate to potentially add more bot/shill activity by lowering the bar to entry, but it does unfortunately seem to be deterring actual legitimate users and limiting our growth.

Or maybe we could keep it the same difficulty, but remove it for posts, and only have it for registration. I'm not sure, but it does need to be more accessible it seems. I'll let you decide what is best

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

the saidit captcha is easier now. i feel okay doing that because the cloudflare one is layered on top of that, for the first time registration case at least.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Sweet, nice update.