I don't know about you guys, but those things people put on their blog comment area that have what appears to a jumble of unreadable numbers and another even more annoying box that sometimes appears to be numbers (you know the ones) are totally confusing to me.
This one seems to be very popular and I still never get it right on the first try.
and this one...
Whenever I try to post my comment on their blog posts (and you know which ones of you have this set up), I spend all afternoon trying to figure out the letters and numbers to prove I'm not a robot and get my comment to post. Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating a little about the "all afternoon" part, but even a minute of one failed attempt after another is frustrating, humiliating and time wasting.
Then I imagine there is a little geeky computer nerd security monitor somewhere out there watching my futile attempts from cyberspace. Laughing to himself as he thinks he's weeded out yet another robot trying to comment on some poor unsuspecting blog. Only I'm not a robot! I'm a real person!
I understand the need to prove I'm a real human and not a robot because I mean who wants a comment from a robot! Robots have nothing to say. Absolutely nothing! I, on the other hand, have plenty of important stuff to say.
What I don't understand is why are they so darn hard to read. Even when I put on my super duper 200X magnified reading glasses, I have a hard time deciphering the jumbled mess. Are robots that smart?
Am I the only one who just can't get it on the first, second or third try?
These little things do seem to "dumb down" after each try until finally, after about 20 million tries (okay, I'm exaggerating again), I get one like this that even I can understand...
urstupid 123
Why can't we just start with this one in the first place?
