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This is similar to a UI solution a colleague and I came up with. The action the user could kick off was unstoppable and irreversible (a large batch job), and it
by temporallobe 6y ago
This is similar to a UI solution a colleague and I came up with. The action the user could kick off was unstoppable and irreversible (a large batch job), and it seemed like even a confirmation prompt was too easy to simply click through. So we had the UI present a modal dialog asking the user to type in a specific word in all caps to confirm the action. Worked like a charm.
- D-Coder 6y agoI did a similar thing with a Star Trek program many years ago. One of the commands (22? 23?) was to detonate the warp engines in the hope of taking the enemy with you. After hitting the wrong number once, I added a confirmation that presented a random six-digit number that you had to enter before it accepted the command.