This is just silly. Apologies in advance for taking on a bit of an John Stossel tone here. (Erk’s comment on that post is probably probably one of my favorite ever submitted to this site.)
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Why is the Submit button labeled “Submit” and not “Unsubscribe”? Submit is something you do with an application, or a form. In programmer-speak, you ‘submit’ a ‘form’, which is an html thing I shouldn’t have to worry about. Why is there a cancel button and why is it called “cancel” and not “Stay Subscribed”? If the process is going to be this computer-ized, why not just force me to write an SQL DROP statement after connecting directly to the database server.
Why is e-mail not spelled correctly and why is it pluralized? Why is this page not stylized at all? The address says “Personalized” in it but there is no mention of my name which they obviously know, no mention of my e-mail address, no graphics, no offer of why I might want to stay subscribed, and so on. Why is this process such a huge failed opportunity? Why is it even called a subscription when it is nothing but advertising?
The url looks like this:
I haven’t munged, I just added line breaks – you are all more than welcome to unsubscribe me! I’ve tried with no success. What could possibly be encoded in that huge string of hashes at the end?
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I’ve visited this form a few times now, obviously it isn’t working. Why not?
Why five days? What kind of terrible database stored procedure takes that long? Is there some sort of manual intervention by a temp sitting in a cubical somewhere with a stack of forms to rubber stamp?
Beavis: “Why is it called taking a dump? You’re not taking it anywhere. They should call it leaving a dump.”
et cetera
