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		<title>how to prevent feedback on your website</title>
		<link>http://www.asyndetic.com/blog/2009/08/21/how-to-prevent-feedback-on-your-website/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 13:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Savilonis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fidelity has done a remarkable job of unintentionally making it impossible to submit feedback on their website, 401k.com. I decided to send feedback after I noticed the new login form was obviously completely untested before being deployed: The username field assumes you are entering a social security number and masks all but the last four [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fidelity has done a remarkable job of unintentionally making it impossible to submit feedback on their website, <a href="http://www.401k.com/">401k.com</a>. I decided to send feedback after I noticed the new login form was obviously completely untested before being deployed:</p>
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<li> The username field assumes you are entering a social security number and masks all but the last four &#8216;digits&#8217; of your input, given a sufficiently long username.</li>
<li>The tab ordering changed so I had to tab more than four times to get from the username to password field (I gave up after four tabs).</li>
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<p>Once you log into the site, there is no option to submit feedback that I could find. When you log out, there is a contact link, but website feedback is hidden under a link: <a href="javascript:linkToDclPage('401k','Home','SendaMsgParticipant','','N','')">Participant in a 401(k) Plan Managed by Fidelity</a>. This link is right above <a href="javascript:linkToDclPage('401k','Home','SendaMsgGenInvstInq','','N','')">General Investing Inquiry</a>, so it wasn&#8217;t particularly obvious it was what I wanted.</p>
<p>After I wrote my message, a dialog box popped up saying I had entered invalid characters.</p>
<p><a href="http://asyndetic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/401kcom_invalid.png"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44 colorbox-5" title="401k.com - Invalid Characters" src="http://asyndetic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/401kcom_invalid-300x121.png" alt="" width="300" height="121" /></a></p>
<p>Of course, after review of the message, none of these characters were present in the message. I tried removing parentheses with no luck. Then I figured it was the slash (/) character. Still, no luck. So I started removing newlines. Eventually I just kept removing bits of the message until it got sent.</p>
<p>Turns out it was in fact the slash character, though removing it the first time didn&#8217;t work. All told, I have now submitted six comments to Fidelity, including a rant on the form through which I couldn&#8217;t manage to submit my comments.</p>
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