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Comment by clarkm | Hacker News Reader

I was going to ask the same about googling "gmail", clicking the second link, and actually sending a blank email. But apparently the answer is "thousands of people" a day.

I learn something new about users every day.

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It's probably healthy for us "web people" to get a reminder every so often that vast swaths of humanity use computers in ways that are nearly incomprehensible to us.

YUP. IF YOU EVER WORK IN WEB SUPPORT. YOU WILL SOON REALIZE HALF OF THE PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET HAVE BROKEN CAPLOCK BUTTONS.

The Mac Keyboard has a broken Caps Lock button "by design"; you can't press it too fast.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1192

The world's fastest typist, Sean Wrona, would abhor that - he uses capslock instead of shift(!) He can go 200WPM+ so, clearly he's doing something right...

I assume there's a point in overall speed where the slowdown from caps-up/down -> letter-up/down -> caps-up/down is worth the reliability drop from coordinating shift-down -> letter-up/down -> shift-up. I think I hit that point sometimes entering passwords and other frequently entered info, but the reality is for most typing none of us get there.

Seriously, the number of wrong turns you had to take to get there... wtf? I kind of feel like from a UI perspective, you can try to make your site as usable as possible, but someone will always run into the dumbest edge case or contact you to ask questions which are clearly answered on the site.

I have an Android app with my email as the support address. Probably half of the emails I get from there are blank. No idea why.

Could a lot of that activity just be bots?

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