Total Bollocks Willy Waving Awards Results and the Botties

[miss_s_b]

So I, personally, am the fourteenth best Lib Dem blogger, and my blog is the seventeenth best blog, according to those who voted in the Total Bollocks Willy Waving Awards. This puts me in the slightly embarrassing position of having beaten my favourite minister of state in both charts - sorry Lynne :(

Am really glad to see Caron second only to Lib Dem Voice and Count Packula in each chart. I hope this is a good sign for the Botties tonight. I've been nominated for best post in that, but I don't expect to win. Both Neil's and Alex's nominated posts are better than mine. Also I have issued threats to various people about what will happen if I DO win...

Comments

[sassy_scot]

Thank you for that - and congratulations to you. I can't choose between you and Daddy Alex but one of you should win best post.

I am totally amazed that I came second - especially in the bloggers list where there are zillions of better people than me, like Mark Thompson and Evan Harris writing on so many different sites.

Looking forward to finally meeting you tomorrow.

[andrewhickey.info]

Threats don't help. My post won last year despite them, even though it was essentially just some swearing.

Incidentally, your CAPTCHA is just taking the piss - one of the two words is in Greek (it's legon, but that doesn't help given it's in a different alphabet)

[chess]

If it's entirely untypeable, the answer is always 'penis'.

(I'm not even being a troll - so many people must have caught the 4chan meme of doing this to captchas that they must filter for it by now, which means it's actually more likely to avoid giving them a false result than anything else you could put in.)

[andrewhickey.info]

Actually, I got lucky and the word in English was the one that had previously been done, so I just typed the English transliteration for the Greek - that way if anyone else happens to get that one and know the Greek alphabet, they have some kind of chance.

I hate CAPTCHAs, and can't understand why they're used at all...

[miss_s_b]

I use them reluctantly; at some point I plan to turn anonycommenting back on.

[daweaver]

CAPTCHAs are the work of the devil. Here's a review of the state of the art from about six months ago, with the takeaway quote "The perfect CAPTCHA is no CAPTCHA at all."

Personally, I'm minded never to fill them in, and to send snot-o-grams (by email! to humans!) explaining precisely why they've excluded me.