RiverDave
In it to win it
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- Sep 13, 2007
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I truly am sorry for the inconvenience of the Captcha when you log on to rdp.. It's a very effective way to keep those "bot" attacks out of the website and keep it online until I can figure out a more permanent solution. @Admin Dude is currently looking into all the options so we can go into the future without any further problems like this. On one hand it makes me a little sad that someone would go through all the trouble and the enormous expense involved with doing something like this. On the other if it's gonna happen, I'd rather it happen sooner than later so we can address it, get it behind us and move on.
I promise we are working on it..
I started this site way back in 2007, and I don't remember when (2012-13'ish?) we had to take it offline for a whole day to do some kinda upgrade. I remember the IT guy back then saying "Dave we took it offline, and the amount of people trying to login to the site never wavered."
He was pretty shocked that even though the site was down the amount of inquiries trying to get on stayed pretty consistent, and even went up a bit right before it went live again.
To take that out of tech speak and put it into laymen's terms, it means that the membership here is pretty fiercely loyal to the site. Throughout the last couple of days dealing with this has been pretty emotionally exhausting. I can't imagine how bad someones life has to suck to try and go out and hurt another persons livelihood. (let alone a bunch of people whom depend on our community).
Obviously during that time you start having all kinds of trains of thought with regard to that, and everyone has their .02 to say. Suggestions like "Just get rid of the P&G" were the most popular, and something I actually considered for a bit. I might launch a second "rdp" called RiverDavesPolitics, and just host a separate forum if it's gonna cause that much trouble, but I can honestly say I don't ever want it to go away.. I find it to be an extremely useful resource of catching the latest news and going ons.
If someone told me that I had to run a captcha on the front of this site I'd just assume it would knock about 2/3 the traffic off it of immediately.
To kind of break down those numbers.. Yes I took a hit for the three days of the attacks, but what you are seeing at the end is the majority of the traffic came back even with a captcha..
The loyalty the members have to the site is once again "fierce" and it makes me very proud that in these modern "gotta have it now" times, that people are jumping through the hoops to get back on here. It really means a lot personally that the members enjoy the community enough to do that, and it's one of the reasons that we try to do so much for all the members on here.
I'll conclude it to say that I have had some amazing conversations, and even offers from advertisers to step up and offer $$ to make this go away. While we haven't solved the problem yet, we are still "workin on it." Thank you for having the patience while we are going through this, and thank you for the loyalty to the site, to not let a few little hoops drive you away.
To the guy that's doing it - Spend some more money buddy. Like I said the first time, "We will get through this, but you will be stupid forever."
RD
I promise we are working on it..
I started this site way back in 2007, and I don't remember when (2012-13'ish?) we had to take it offline for a whole day to do some kinda upgrade. I remember the IT guy back then saying "Dave we took it offline, and the amount of people trying to login to the site never wavered."
He was pretty shocked that even though the site was down the amount of inquiries trying to get on stayed pretty consistent, and even went up a bit right before it went live again.
To take that out of tech speak and put it into laymen's terms, it means that the membership here is pretty fiercely loyal to the site. Throughout the last couple of days dealing with this has been pretty emotionally exhausting. I can't imagine how bad someones life has to suck to try and go out and hurt another persons livelihood. (let alone a bunch of people whom depend on our community).
Obviously during that time you start having all kinds of trains of thought with regard to that, and everyone has their .02 to say. Suggestions like "Just get rid of the P&G" were the most popular, and something I actually considered for a bit. I might launch a second "rdp" called RiverDavesPolitics, and just host a separate forum if it's gonna cause that much trouble, but I can honestly say I don't ever want it to go away.. I find it to be an extremely useful resource of catching the latest news and going ons.
If someone told me that I had to run a captcha on the front of this site I'd just assume it would knock about 2/3 the traffic off it of immediately.
To kind of break down those numbers.. Yes I took a hit for the three days of the attacks, but what you are seeing at the end is the majority of the traffic came back even with a captcha..
The loyalty the members have to the site is once again "fierce" and it makes me very proud that in these modern "gotta have it now" times, that people are jumping through the hoops to get back on here. It really means a lot personally that the members enjoy the community enough to do that, and it's one of the reasons that we try to do so much for all the members on here.
I'll conclude it to say that I have had some amazing conversations, and even offers from advertisers to step up and offer $$ to make this go away. While we haven't solved the problem yet, we are still "workin on it." Thank you for having the patience while we are going through this, and thank you for the loyalty to the site, to not let a few little hoops drive you away.
To the guy that's doing it - Spend some more money buddy. Like I said the first time, "We will get through this, but you will be stupid forever."
RD
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B captchas. Even chicks like boobies 
Why I'll have you know, I've had a non-flip smart phone now for going on 1 year now, so 
on you 
