Search function is down and I dont want everyone to be robots anymore.

[Penumbral]

How to I bring back regular avatars? Looked in setting couldn't find anything.

[Don Coyote]

How to I bring back regular avatars? Looked in setting couldn't find anything.

There is some kind of quest. Deep in the meta.

[Faust]

Click on five smilies. No more robots. Metaphorum.

[Penumbral]

Ah yes. I looked in forum news but not metaforum because I am a fool.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Use Google Advanced Search... there are five smilies you have to click on in a certain amount of time, and they have to each be in a different thread, and you can't use tabs. Search "No more robots".

[BadBeast]

Took me a dozen attempts to throw the 'bots, and then I saw that button again. The. Red. One. It took all my (admittedly, lacking in stature) powers of impulse control not to click it again straight away, to see if I would be transformed into the same Robot again. And now, one day at a time, it gets easier to resist.

[Jenne]

I think I need Trip Zip's "special code" because I DID the clicking on the smiling things...didn't work. 

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think I need Trip Zip's "special code" because I DID the clicking on the smiling things...didn't work. 

I kept screwing it up, which admittedly because I didn't understand the directions. Finally, what I did was go to the search page that had all the "no more robots" threads, and then I'd click on one, click the smiley, click back, etc until I had done all five. They can't be in different tabs, and you have to not time out.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I also seem to remember there being a browser it wouldn't work on, maybe?

[Penumbral]

I also seem to remember there being a browser it wouldn't work on, maybe?

Worked in Opera so it probably works in most of them.

[Jenne]

Yeah, I did the no more robots click/click back thing on Friday...didn't work.  Wonder if I timed out and didn't know it.

[Jenne]

Yup, just did it again, twice.  No dice.

I might just clear the passwords/cookies as well, though.  That should do it.  I don't mind the robots...and there's a bit of delay where I can see others' avatars for about 5 seconds before the robots kick in.

And I see the regular avies on my phone as well.

[Stelpa]

Clearing my cache worked for me... If all else fails, you could just reinstall your browser? :P

[Jenne]

  NAH, I like the robots too much...

[Pæs]

I clear my cache a few times a browsing-session and it's a bother to constantly have to be on the lookout for the button to bring the robots back.