Oh boy, want too read another rant? If so read on.
OK, so yesterday my sister decides she wants to use freecycle, or rather have me use freecycle and tell her everything that goes on, like some dumb messenger boy 
Anyway, I register her an account, why not? I mean yahoo groups are lame duplications of mail-lists or, you know, real groups(even usenet got this better than the yahoo crap), but my sister doesn’t know this, infact, given the popularity of yahoo groups I’m scared to guess what portion of the world are so stupid(I’m gonna say 50%, since that sounds like a nice number).
So anyway, I register for an account, a captcha.
∴what should I have entered? It’s clearly the symbolic representation of therefore used in mathematical proofs, but would I type ‘therefore’? Why not enter the therefore symbol like I have here? But what happens if there’s the average idiot comes along later and enters it as
:.or something just ass stupid, recaptcha is a great idea, getting people to fill in the words machines can’t, but lots of them aren’t even words, or worse still, are incomplete words, suffixes or prefixes without the attached part:
-ing honestly they look as if they have been cut from a dictionary.
Anyway, back to the point, 4 tried later the captcha finally gave me a set of letters spaced far enough apart for me to tell where each letter starts and ends, so yeah, finally registered, of course this isn’t me registering for the group, or an easy yahoo id, no, instead I’ve just resisted for an email address, WTF? I’ve got an email address, one that’s fast, easy to remember and has an inbox larger than yahoo could even understand.
Oh, well it turns out that yahoo uses it’s emails as ids, or something like that, so now I don’t need to remember my freecycle info, I need to remember my yahoo info, because that makes sense.
so I log in, firefox doesn’t offer to save the password, no now I’m penalised for using secure passwords(by which I mean MD5 sums, or parts of them), so now I have to copy and paste the password around, how secure(or I could just change my password to something people who know me could guess(I mean leet incarnations of phrases are hard to guess, but yahoo doesn’t appear to have a guess limit, so nothing stops them taking half an hour to try a few guesses), that’s not exactly better).
OK, so I’m registered for yahoo, I should now be able to use freecycle, right?
Wrong, apparantly registering for yahoo’s crap is step 1-20 of 3,000 I now need to register for freecycle.
Registering for freecycle was easier, although another captcha and 5 minutes of my life wasted.
So, I’ve now spent about 30 minutes or so trying to register(including 1 request for yahoo’s support, who apparantly need me to register an account before I can tell them I can’t register, yeah, that made sense to me as well), and gotten as far as register, now I just need them to confirm the account and I’ll be able to give the stuff I don’t want away, and people wonder why recycling isn’t done by everyone.
This morning I woke up, checked my emails, confirmed, finaly I can use freecycle, and there’s a whole bunch of messages already, nice.
iF ANYONE HAS A LIGHT BOX FOR A NEW STARTER INTO CRAFTS I WOULD BE
GRATEFUL THANKS SUSAN
Clearly someone needs a guide on how to use the caps lock key, maybe a comma or full stop would break up the single lines mass of SHOUTING including what I assume is supposed to be a nice thanks, although it comes across more as a pathetic order from a screaming toddler.
I haven’t done anything else with free cycle yet, I’m afraid to post the messages I’ve been asked to in case I get further linked into the retarded nature that appears far too common on these groups(or should I call them “lame mailing lists” since that is what it is).
I know this is long, but I have to vent, freecycle is nothing but a waste of time wrapped in a head ache inducing garble of idiots(which is a shame, because if you got rid of the idiots the thing might make me want to support it, instead of, you know, cancelling my membershit and ^H^H^H^H^H^Hp and telling my sister to ask someone else to assist her in contacting the retarded of the world, I want nothing to do with them).
