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I know not everyone can afford a web host of their own and like the anonymity of a free account from Blogger.
But I have to point out one of my biggest pet peeves EVER.
WORD VERIFICATION to prove you are human. They are almost always written in some crappy skewed font with squiggly lines running through it. Or the letters are upside down or backwards. They are in ambiguously mixed cases. Is that an L or a 1? Upside down 7 or a capital L?
And even if you carefully type the letters in, they aren’t always accepted as correct, which occasionally causes you to have to completely retype your comments and go through the whole process over again.
I was trying to leave a comment on Kristy’s blog today about her potential fertility problems. The first verification that came up was of course not accepted.
The second one looked like this:
I stared at it for a full three minutes. What is that? Is it W V or V W?
I consulted UMB.
He stared at it for a full minute. “It’s definitely V W.”
“How can you tell?”
He put his finger over the first part, and said, “Look at the thicker part of the line, it only makes sense if it’s W V.”
“But you just said it was definitely ‘V W’!”
“I did?”
“Yes.”
He looked at it again. “It IS V W… well… you know, now that I think about it, it’s W V.”
“So that’s your final answer, W V?” I asked, wondering if my comment was even worth this amount of discussion.
“No. It’s V W. You know that if you mess it up, it will just give you another one.”
“I know that, but this is already the second attempt. And I’m about ready to give up on it.”
So I entered it as “W V T D G U J M” and it worked.
Really, I don’t have anything to say that is important enough to go through that again.
