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Thursday, March 16, 2006

Word Verification Feature Must be Controlled by Russian Sadists


Okay Word Verification. Enough’s enough.

It’s one thing to show a picture of letters that must be entered into a space in order to post on Blogger– it keeps spammers from mucking up one’s blog and that’s good.

But when Word Verification becomes a sadistic game, I know that someone evil is attempting to raise all of our blood pressure readings, encourage temper tantrums and cause an outbreak of hives.

Why do the letters have to be soooooooooooo distorted?

How much time do I spend wondering: is this a j or an i – is this letter a d or a c positioned very close to an l? Never mind the damn q/g problems I have.

I’ve decided that the Vicious Word Verification Villain must speak Russian.

Lots of the “words” I have to copy down in the space – to my ear as I sound them out – are Russian words.

Zdcrstochye – that sounds Russian doesn’t it? Or how about Skjjiolki – these are two WVs I recently wrote down after numerous attempts at commenting and getting nowhere fast.

I always have hated the idea that because one person in East Jesus stole a blouse from a department store, forever and ever I have to try on clothing with big white plastic doohickies sticking in my armpit.

ARRGGHHH!

I hate the fact that because some people do bad things --the rest of us have to suffer for the rest of our lives. Every rule and law we have is tailored to the lowest common denominator of society. I think that’s wrong.

Anyhow, it’s those very people that caused the whole Word Verification feature that we all are left to deal with now.

Stinking Spammers!

I once could comment without fear or trepidation. Now when I comment I cross my fingers for an easy word like AZZPO rather than one of those horrendous words like PSKIJINKHT!

11 Comments:

Blogger The Egel Nest said...

My word for this post...

ZLYRWFP...I think :)

Sounds like a heavy metal band...

ZEELERWOOFP...ROCK ON!

I was thinking about writing a post like this...but I never turn on my word verificiation...so I would be bitching from a distance...which is fun..but nonsensical :)

Bradley
The Egel Nest

11:05 AM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

Bradley - how is it you aren't inundated with spam?

The minute I turn my WV off, I get a slew of posters spamming me. One day I had about a half dozen spam comments on vaginal yeast infections and penis extenders.

This was on a Grandma post - now what what she think about that?

11:18 AM  
Blogger Irina Tsukerman said...

LOL, more Polish than Russian - but I'm totally with you!

12:07 PM  
Blogger kimananda said...

This is a fabulous post, and everything in it has me nodding my head, and thinking 'yes, that's exactly it!' My favorite part of it for me, is that my computer tries to fill in the remaining part of the verification, as if these strange things are real words. Hmmm...I'll have to check if Apple computers are really a Russian product? ;-)

2:44 PM  
Blogger Sylow_P said...

I want to know if anyone has ever gotten an actual english word for word verification.

If it is truly random, some of them should be real words, but I've never seen one.

3:32 PM  
Blogger Steve said...

Here is me wishing you a merry epgnv!

(Damn, that one was easy!)




Steve

3:47 PM  
Blogger kristen said...

hehe, I wondered if it's just me with those blurred/smeared and unreadable letters. Sometimes I think they are just being mean!

4:57 PM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

Irina...I should have checked with you before I posted...but doesn't that first one have a Russian tone to it?

Kimananda, aw, what a cute little computer you have...trying so hard to make sense out of the WV words. Reminds me of Google when it asks: Did you mean...and then throws out another word, which usually you didn't mean...

Sylow, the closest I ever got to a real word or words was SKIEST - as in All my children love to ski, but my youngest is the skiest.


Steve...! Thanks for keeping an eye on me!


AMK - you are not alone my dear -- we all face the evil WVs...although today's letters are legible for a change: lsgtkfnr - I can live with that one.

7:39 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

My verification is gunpcln.

What the heck is a gunpcln?

Anyway, I agree with your thoughts. Now I'll have to make sure that is a c and an l and not a d.

1:10 PM  
Blogger mary bishop said...

HI Kassi!
Your comment made me laugh...at one point I was trying to find nouns to fit these nutso WV words.

Here's something else that makes me nuts...I think I've left a comment and go upon my way...next hour or day..I find the "Post a Comment On:" page sitting there -- my comment unpublished because I entered the wrong letters in the box...

2:30 PM  
Blogger The Egel Nest said...

MB -

I don't know why I don't get spammed all day..I get very few..I guess I am lucky :)


Bradley
The Egel Nest

1:23 AM  

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