Prove to me you're human...

[ffutures]

I put a couple of things on Freecycle, and as is my custom ended the item descriptions with:

Free to a good home. Please make it clear that you are human and genuinely interested in this item when you reply - if all I get is a message saying something like "I want this" or "plz call my cellphone" I'm not going to bother replying.

So far I've had two "I want this" messages, once cellphone number, and one person who posted "Hi. I am interested. Thanks." six times to the same item. I might actually reply to him, since this does seem to be an attempt to comply after a fashion.

Count me less than impressed.

Comments

[vicarage.livejournal.com]

We should only patronise Freecycle for nice people. Its odd that people should use the anonymity of the internet to be so rude, when it the transaction will come down to personal contact, and you are choosing who to bestow your largesse on.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I don't mind people being concise - but people who can't be arsed to explain themselves rarely even bother to turn up, and I've gone through that game too many times.