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Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user.

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On 2/12/2017 12:37 PM, Rich wrote:
> Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:
>> Just extending this old thread with a new user annoyance item:
>>
>> When showing a user their credit card details, so that the user can
>> update an expiry date, replace some of the card digits with asterisks
>> as a security measure, and then complain about them when the user
>> tries to submit the change.
> 
> Really?  Wow....  Talk about both developers and testing falling down
> there.
> 

I dare say it didn't occur to any of them that this was silly. After 
all, if they didn't have a mindset that says that the user helps the 
computer, rather than the other way around, then we wouldn't see other 
silly stuff, such as the example you mentioned.

Sylvia.

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Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-12-02 11:23 +1100
  Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-02 01:37 +0000
    Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-12-02 13:12 +1100
    Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-12-02 09:39 +0000
      Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-02 18:02 +0000
        Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2017-12-02 12:44 -0800
          Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-12-03 09:31 +0000
        Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2017-12-03 09:43 +0000
  Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Eric Pozharski <whynot@pozharski.name> - 2017-12-02 15:31 +0200
  Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-12-14 12:50 +1100
    Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2017-12-14 02:06 +0000
      Re: Let's compile a list of ways to annoy the user. Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2017-12-21 13:52 +1100

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