Trouble brewin'

Okay. I just have to let off a little steam.

This morning I spent a while searching out new blogs, following long and winding trails of other people's blogrolls. Click here. Click there.

Read lots of good stuff!

One woman was posting about how she felt when her comments plummeted. Well, I've certainly been there and knew how she felt so I wrote a long, considered, kind comment, telling her basically to check all the practical stuff first. Page load. Ask a question in her post that would encourage people to share their thoughts. Et cetera. Blah blah. All told, I thought it was fairly nice and an opportunity to share a lot of the same things people shared with me when I would begin to melt down about the same thing.

The comment was lost.

Why?

Because I couldn't get past the g** d*** captcha program! The pale grey on an even paler grey, obscured letters with lines through them, too many letters, upper case and lower case, on and on.

I had to give up and she never got the benefit of all your wisdom, that which was passed along to me.

I'm pissed off!

Look, let me put it on the table:

Unless you are KOS.com, FreeRepublic.com, Ariana Huffington, Barbara Ehrenreich or one of the really big bloggers, you're probably not going to get anything beyond the occasion hyperlinked spam comment that directs you to a teeth whitening website.

That's just the reality of it.

So why have something like that? Why make it more difficult to communicate?

Please, please, please! Have mercy on those of us who are dyslexic, those of us with poor eyesight and those of us who have no agenda beyond simply wanting to communicate with you.

Get rid of it. Please!

(huff puff. My rant is over and no one's house blew down)

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