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Old 05-12-2019, 12:14 AM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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Old 05-13-2019, 07:24 PM
 
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Oddly enough I pitched a ***** to NYT because of the stupidity of the number of them I had to go through. Someone listened because it's much easier now. Sometimes I don't even see one when I log in.
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Old 05-15-2019, 08:35 AM
 
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I was just trying to communicate my electricity meter values to the provider via the online form and had to click the refresh button at least two dozen times before I finally managed to guess those letters, thanks to a zoom level of 300%. The computer voice was all cracked up, hence of no use.
Assuming I am not the only one with that problem, how can anyone come up with such a ridiculous system? Who wants to spend minutes just in order to send a form?
I know this is an old thread but they are making it still hard with the image ones that tell you to select pictures that have a car or a road, it's so hard to know if the car or road is only on a small part of the image if you should select it or not. I wish there was a better way, and yeah those numbers and letters are sometimes impossible to read and the audio sounds like it was recorded in Hell.
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Old 05-15-2019, 08:54 AM
 
Location: Crook County, Hellinois
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I know this is an old thread but they are making it still hard with the image ones that tell you to select pictures that have a car or a road, it's so hard to know if the car or road is only on a small part of the image if you should select it or not.
That's what I was getting at in my earlier post. (Which was its own thread before it got merged.) Like, what constitutes a "traffic light"? Do the support poles count? Or just the part with three lights?
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