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

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with <f8ea3sF4limU1@mid.individual.net> Sylvia Else wrote:
> On 14/01/2016 11:42 AM, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> We should probably limit it to things people have actually seen.
>> 
>> 1. Limits that are not stated up front.
>> 
>> 2. If the user tries to submit a form with invalid data, clear the form, 
>> and make the user fill it all in again.
>> 
>> 3. Have an on-line support chat page that offers the option to print-out 
>> the chat so far, but when the chat ends, go immediately to another page, 
>> without letting the user print out the whole thing.
>> 
>> (I got that just the other day, and the page I got sent too was a 
>> feedback page so that I could rate the experience I'd just had).
>> 
>> Sylvia.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 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.

Or take a deep breath and...  In registration form:  [a] cut off prefix;
[b] make user pick that prefix from drop-down list;  [c] make user input
rest of the number in input field *above* the list;  [d] by _make_ mean
real bisyness, by shortening input field to ten characters (luckily
numbers are just numbers and no utf8 is involved) so users can't input
all twelve right away.

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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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