Illogical Paradox

Yeah, you need to protect your site from bad people. I get it.

But think about it this way. There are bajillions of websites on the internet, so chances are, you need ME a lot more than I need YOU. And if you make registering to your site ridiculously difficult by using a captcha that is illegible or just plain DOESN’T WORK, guess what! I won’t sign up for your site!

I usually give it about five tries, which is five times more than the average person would give. But after five times of being shown flh438gf, typing in flh438gf, and being told that the correct answer ISN’T flh438gf, I get very annoyed.

The worst offender for this used to be Rapidshare, who (for their free service) wouldn’t let you download something without decoding a captcha that consisted of a a bunch of numbers/letters with ridiculously distorted pictures of animals on them, and you were supposed to only type the ones that had cats. All the animals looked more like squiggles than animals. The captcha looked like this:

Rapidshare's cat captcha

As you can see, that would be a problem.

Luckily, they got rid of it a few months after they started using it, probably because it got hacked. I’m assuming it wasn’t because people hated it. After all, who cares if the users are unhappy? We have enough anyway!

So, in the true spirit of the Internet, here’s some free publicity for the websites that can’t make themselves USABLE!

• BlogHub
• Blog Toplist
• Blogarama
• SubmitBlogNow

(This list will grow, trust me.)

You know, I’m just SO glad that the Jewish world’s ideological opponents are so peaceful, tolerant, and LEGAL when expressing their opinions. That really makes it a lot easier to come to a consensus about Israel’s place in the world, and that of its Arab neighbors.

And also, I think that when fighting for your beliefs, you should give your group a peaceful and persuasive title such as “Terrorist Crew” and call yourself something inspiring such as “Muslim Defacer”. Furthermore, you should strive to make your statement in the most obnoxious, immature, illegal, and generally NASTY way. That really gets results.

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