What the hell?

I just got off the wire — the Skype wire — with this chick, Michele.

She (or he) is one of those spammers that harass you when you’re online and available. Because she had a somewhat normal username, I decided to see if she was someone looking for me or just looking to… whatever those people are after.
I quickly realized she was a fraud so I promptly hit the ‘Block’ button and saw about my stuff.

I get another notification from Skype. It’s Michele, again. I thought I clicked the wrong button, read the wrong lines, and confirmed the wrong action. Silly me, but to me it seemed as though I had just blocked michele and confirmed that. Still, she was being really cute, and I do have blue balls, so I decided to let her know I was going to block her.

I promptly hit the ‘Block’ button and saw about my stuff.

I get another notification from Skype. It’s Michele, again.
At this point, something was smelling fishy. I thought this was a bug, but I had blocked people before this way and it worked. There’d been no update in the meantime. And she really wanted to chat. This must mean that I seem less like an asshole online, right? (Note to self: have all your first dates online from now on.)
I’m no scientist, but I did wonder what would happen if I blocked her again. So I selected Conversation > Block as that brings up a slightly different dialog. Blocked her, ‘removed [her] from my contact list’ (as if) and checked the ‘Report abuse from this person’ checkbox. I was feeling slightly better about myself, thinking I found a way to circumvent the bug.

Not a minute goes by. I get another notification from Skype. Michele’s really talkative, really, but I was back in the mother of all bad moods.

It’s sad that the makers of ebay and paypal would allow such a thing to happen. It’s a basic feature of anything social. And Skype is pretty social, or microsocial at least.  Also, I could not find a link to a report-a-bug dialog from their menu. I could easily share Skype with a friend or buy some credit, but not help the developers by submitting a bug report. Did I mention I was — well, am — in bad mood?

In the end, I kindly asked Michele to stop, and she did.
Wonder if she’s pretty.