Why even concern ourselves with it. Also, if members can unrestrict, you might as well take the thing away in the first place. Restriction helps in two ways that I can see. The most important of which is prevention of spambots. The second is keeping people off of here that should remain off, like banned users trying to create alt accounts.

I just don't get why we should concern ourselves with getting the mods' attention. In fact, maybe it's a good thing people don't get unrestricted within 15 minutes of posting. IT's good they have to wait it out, maybe by that time, if they were planning anything untoward, they might become tired of waiting.

@2 I meant the mods appoint specific members to allow unrestricting. Not allow any member to randomly unrestrict any person. About the wait thing, I was thinking a day or 2 would go by, possibly a week before the mods take it to attention, but you do have a good point. But if they are most likely trying to skirt around a ban they don't care how much time it will take, just that it happens. Also at the end of my post I mentioned just moving the topic here so normal users wouldn't have to inform the mods. It just shows up in a more popular place

@5. oof. This is why cloudflare should go back to recaptcha. I hate that stupid HCaptcha thing.

@aaron I've encountered that captcha a few times as well. If even admins have to deal with it, that's certainly troublesome.

Is there no possibility that you could send an email to the site developers and ask them to change this system? Yes yes, I know, they don't care about the site anymore. But having a captcha with no audio option on a site primarily meant for blind people is ... well, ironic I suppose, but not good.

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Done. I've unrestricted who I can, but there's a couple of users who no links to their profile, literally the forum isn't letting me click on their names.