Yo Eric,
That message scared the heck out of me! You should post a follow up message "now worries, it was me" or something like that! As is, it scared the heck out of me!!! I thought it was a virus "announcing" itself!!!!
even minus one; mine goes to eleven... 
Edited by - pinenut on 11/11/2026 09:19:12
Get used to it, this is the new normal. We will now have to play games due to AI scraping. It was bad enough when we were training AI to tell apart images.
I wish there was a way to funnel more participation on this board.
I've noticed a use of Appeal to Inconvenience and Cognitive Distortion lately, "This is why I never post here" and so forth, anytime there is any drift or contrary reply. Perhaps I am just noticing it more.
Now compare this well organized, sequential response, traditional message board format to the bot slop mess of other socials.
Sadly the dopamine triggering science of endless scrolling is too strong for this old format to compete.
I just wish we could get the image uploader up to date to accept HEIC.
Can yuh add some "guzzintuhs" in there 'cause them occasional "x" things between the numbers confuse me uh little!
Yes, Eric has put in some new way to stop the AI bots from taking over the Hangout (at least that's what I understand) and this will hopefully take care of the slow/fast problem we've been plagued with the last few days.
As I have found out, you just need to do this once and after that, we know you're a member and not an AI bot.
asking to prove one is not a robot--is so far a good way to undo this type of data invasion --I have been seeing it in legit sites at the very first contact with that site --so I go with the flow on that--
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