Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Larry Sheldon Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 18:56:31 -0600 Organization: *snerk* Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net W4xrU4n4+xZpmsazvtabWgFz9BQeadMdRsc+fc9Zd2sf2zodm0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:IDiS7JoV5mqPsfQ7jTchfcAOH0o= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:10012 On 1/15/2016 06:16, Anssi Saari wrote: > Sylvia Else writes: > >> We should probably limit it to things people have actually seen. >> >> 1. Limits that are not stated up front. > > My favorite: web-based job application system that has multiple pages > and a hidden timeout. So that it wipes out your painstakingly input data > if you take too long (and all that was in your CV anyways...) Amazon's mystery browser has an especially virulent version of that--while reading Facebook, if you have temerity to actually READ some lengthy item (after (if) the vertigo-inducing ad-flashing stops), it will give a message the the effect that the scrip has died and gives you a "pull the trigger when you are ready to die" message. -- sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)