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>> difficult for the user to not notice an unverified email address There are always users who exceed your expectations.
by crottypeter 10y ago
>> difficult for the user to not notice an unverified email address
There are always users who exceed your expectations.
- koliber 10y agoIndeed. Luckily, they are not most users.
- ldjb 10y agoIn my experience, as someone who has a lot of dealings with users, I've found that users are very goal-oriented. They have a particular task they want to complete, and they just want to get on with it. A website may prompt for email confirmation, but if confirming their email is not actually necessary for them to complete the task at hand, there's not much incentive to do it.
- koliber 10y agoAbsolutely. A website needs to make a determination how important it is for them to have a verified email address. If the email address is used only for notification or marketing purposes, then there it should not put too much pressure on the user to validate the email address. If, on the other hand, the email address is required for something important, such as password recovery, it should make a concerted effort to get a user to provide one.
- DanBC 10y ago> If the email address is used only for notification or marketing purposes, then there it should not put too much pressure on the user to validate the email address. You must verify the address -confirm the opt-in- before you start to send stuff to it. If you don't you're spamming.
- ldjb 10y agoIt's interesting how it's common practice to ensure email addresses are confirmed before sending marketing messages to them, whereas there doesn't seem to be such a requirement for telephone numbers or postal addresses.
- nommm-nommm 10y agoMost services I've encountered don't let you actually do anything until you verify your email address. You can login and that's about it.