NSFW FPP.

March 27, 2008 6:38 AM

1. Please delete my FPP. Unbeknownst to me, the link contains NSFW ads. 2. Even after filling out the captcha on the contact admins page, I get "Couldn't send your message. Please go back and make sure you fill out the captcha before you send your message."

I checked out the linked pages with adblock turned off and javascript turned on, and didn't see anything untoward using FF.

My apologies to anyone who got a surprise.

posted by orthogonality to bugs at 6:38 AM (30 comments total)

1. Just added an above-the-fold NSFW to the post. Good morning!

2. Weird. Someone else mentioned captcha difficulties yesterday, I think. I guess we need to check it out. Anybody else having any trouble with it?
posted by cortex at 6:41 AM on March 27

I just removed the three or four "OMG NSFW!" comments too so maybe the discussion can be nicely rerailed.
posted by jessamyn at 7:06 AM on March 27

Anybody else having any trouble with it?

I had captcha problems a few months ago, but that was on my attenuated BlackBerry browser.
posted by breezeway at 7:28 AM on March 27

He's a robot, burn him!
posted by fatllama at 7:29 AM on March 27

I'm a robot and a philosophical zombie.
posted by orthogonality at 7:34 AM on March 27

Hey Jess, you also removed a couple of comments that weren't about NSFW (ones about how folks looked different than they do now).
posted by orthogonality at 7:45 AM on March 27

Specifically, at least thse:
http://www.metafilter.com/70259/The-present-contains-nothing-more-than-the-past-and-what-is-found-in-the-effect-was-already-in-the-cause#2059540
http://www.metafilter.com/70259/The-present-contains-nothing-more-than-the-past-and-what-is-found-in-the-effect-was-already-in-the-cause#2059541
http://www.metafilter.com/70259/The-present-contains-nothing-more-than-the-past-and-what-is-found-in-the-effect-was-already-in-the-cause#2059543
http://www.metafilter.com/70259/The-present-contains-nothing-more-than-the-past-and-what-is-found-in-the-effect-was-already-in-the-cause#2059659
posted by orthogonality at 7:52 AM on March 27

Hey Jess, you also removed a couple of comments that weren't about NSFW (ones about how folks looked different than they do now).

I do believe she's being diplomatic; there were three straight middle-of-the-night Historical Hot or Not meditations that were cumulatively kind of offensive and dumb.
posted by dyoneo at 7:53 AM on March 27

Well, I just tried the contact form, and it seemed to work -- but only after allowing scripting for recaptcha.net. Without that, I didn't get the captcha form, and it wouldn't submit.
posted by Malor at 7:53 AM on March 27

I tried the contact form, and I didn't allow recaptcha.net, but it seemed to go through fine... Perhaps whatever the problem was has been fixed.
posted by onalark at 8:06 AM on March 27

Yeah, we've received a couple test messages successfully. Hey, orthogonality (and others, for that matter), any recent browser changes? I know FF 2.0.0.13 just dropped recently, and I can't imagine why exactly that might cause a problem, but as a who-knows ferexample...
posted by cortex at 8:10 AM on March 27

The other comments were someone trying unsuccessfully a few times to post a link to an image on shorpy's that was busted. I dropped him a MeMail about that and suggested he repost since the thread was not really moving off swiftly without him.

One of those comments also included the astute observation that all women before Marion Davies were "potato-headed unfuckable sea hags" and I said that while he was re-writing that comment he might want to consider that a comment like that dropped early into a thread ran a good chance of totally destroying any discussion the thread might have about anything but his own assessment of fuckability of all women prior to, say, the 1920s. It's up to him what he would like to do about that.
posted by jessamyn at 8:20 AM on March 27 [1 favorite]

ReCAPTCHA.
posted by blue_beetle at 8:25 AM on March 27

yeah, blue_beetle, that's what we're using on the contact form, ReCAPTCHA.
posted by mathowie at 9:32 AM on March 27

"potato-headed unfuckable sea hags"

At the risk of allowing others to speak for me I'm just going to quote the alt-text of the most recent Achewood:

Oh baby they got companies that gather garbage but why ain't they got companies that gather men?
posted by Divine_Wino at 9:57 AM on March 27

One of those comments also included the astute observation that all women before Marion Davies were "potato-headed unfuckable sea hags" and I said that while he was re-writing that comment he might want to consider that a comment like that dropped early into a thread ran a good chance of totally destroying any discussion the thread might have about anything but his own assessment of fuckability of all women prior to, say, the 1920s.

Frankly, all women born prior to, what, 1908 (as a ball-park) are pretty unfuckable. Also, men.

Because they're dead.

Also, I was having this discussion with my girlfriend about how some people's faces just seem to come in and out of fashion—like, especially with guys, you'll notice these weird high foreheads or eyes that are too close together, and, like, everyone has 'em for a while. Then they're gone. I think I saw this mentioned in a book once too, but I can't remember which book.
posted by klangklangston at 10:31 AM on March 27

Oh Klang, you can have sex with a dead person, you just can't make 'em love you.
posted by Divine_Wino at 10:38 AM on March 27 [2 favorites]

On the plus side, it only requires one consenting adult.
posted by EarBucket at 11:06 AM on March 27

That's the problem. You seem okay with it when you talk to yourself about it, but in the heat of the moment you wuss out.
posted by roll truck roll at 11:13 AM on March 27

Speak for yourself.
posted by the other side at 11:17 AM on March 27

I wouldn't describe the moment as heated.
posted by Wolfdog at 11:56 AM on March 27

Re-heated, then.
posted by cortex at 12:35 PM on March 27 [3 favorites]

This is no time to get cold feet. Set your sights higher.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 12:43 PM on March 27 [1 favorite]

That's a weird goddamn page to put porniness on.
posted by middleclasstool at 1:01 PM on March 27

cortex writes "any recent browser changes? I know FF 2.0.0.13"

Yeah, I'd just upgraded to 2.0.0.13 when this happened.
posted by orthogonality at 1:11 PM on March 27

I'm mildly fascinated by this sea hag thing. Other than her having been Popeye's nemesis whenever they decided to give Bluto the episode off, I have no cultural context for "Sea Hag" other than as the name of chowdery pubs and the like. A bit of Googling turns up fairly broad usage: poetry, metal bands, flickr sets... what. the. fuck? Hag, I understant, but why the nautical specificity?
posted by mumkin at 1:21 PM on March 27

The Sea is wicked scary and unknowable.
posted by Divine_Wino at 1:43 PM on March 27

Klang: I do believe the quote is from Watchmen.
posted by jtron at 2:28 PM on March 27

For some reason I thought it was from Wisconsin Death Trip, but that seemed unlikely.
posted by klangklangston at 4:15 PM on March 27

Dammit, now that you say it, maybe that's where Moore got it.
posted by jtron at 5:20 PM on March 27