Poll #14131 Swipey swipey
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How do you swipe your Oyster/metro/RFID card?
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A quick tap directly over the reader
10 (45.5%)
Slap, hold and twist as you pass through the barrier
8 (36.4%)
Waft without making contact
1 (4.5%)
Other
3 (13.6%)
Other?
I used to be a Wafter. However, when I started checking my Oyster balance online regularly, I discovered that the barriers would frequently open for me but fail to register one endpoint of my journey. After the umpteenth time of having to file for a refund from being hit with the maximum daily charge, I decided to change. So now I'm in the Slap-and-Hold camp.
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* e.g. that of Londoners
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I always get stuck behind that person.
This is why I'm a Slap-and-Holder.
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IN THE SENSE OF "WORKS ON BUSES" WHERE UH ACTUALLY "THE READER DOESN'T RECOGNISE IT BUT THE DRIVER JUST WAVES ME ON DISGUSTEDLY IF I'M WALKING THAT DAY"
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* The magic words may or may not be, "Jesus fucking Christ, just fucking work already."
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So it seems that that the means of identifying the individual card doesn't have anything like enough data redundancy/deliberately-illegal-permutations built in, and was resonding to a valid identity code that was not your own.
Either that or the system is so ridiculously badly designed that the barrier-opening & passage-logging actions are each triggered off completely separate sensors.
GAHHHH!!!! =:o[
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