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Just after lockdown, our boss sent an important message in our general chat, tagging everyone with @channel. While reading the message one of my cats jumped on

Just after lockdown, our boss sent an important message in our general chat, tagging everyone with @channel. While reading the message one of my cats jumped on my keyboard and managed to spam '+enter maybe fifty times to all 400+ currently reading the channel in a few seconds. Don't think Slack has any kind of rate limiting..? It was also impossible for me to delete the messages, as they jumped up and down when people started reacting, making me misclick loads of times. It was funny. https://i.imgur.com/Sznqb4t.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Sznqb4t.jpg

gnrlst 6y ago
Judging by the amount of Cat emoji reactions, I would go as far as saying your cat is a regular on that Slack channel :)
jrootabega 6y ago
Changing the send action to Ctrl-Enter (or maybe it was Shift-Enter?) helps with this. It also helps prevent accidental yubikey posts and is good for when you need to write up multiline posts. Just saying in case anyone wasn't already aware.
- jSully24 6y ago
  Thanks for the tip. I wonder how many unfinished messages I’ll send before my muscle memory remembers I’ve switched?
  - jrootabega 6y ago
    Heh, yeah, I had a funny story about this:
  - kamyarg 6y ago
    I enabled a delay for gmail that from the moment I click send I have 10s to cancel the email and it let's me edit it. Has been very useful so far.
kebman 6y ago
Skål!
dmingod666 6y ago
Ah! Reminds me of the good old 956th email about: "Please don't reply to all@company.com it goes to everyone" Each person in the mail list is convinced they need to send a reply to that mail informing everyone that the others should not reply to this email address, otherwise how would everyone know they're not supposed to reply to that email.
- galangalalgol 6y ago
  Why does that happen? I've seen it a few times and once it brought down exchange. Psychology study needed.
  - dmingod666 6y ago
    My hypothesis is, the level of peoples education and intelligence are not correlated (ofcourse with exception of the technical and STEM fields).
    - z77dj3kl 6y ago
      I'm not sure I agree. But why would that exception be "of course" anyway?
    - hardlianotion 6y ago
      “of course with exception of the technical and STEM fields” of course
      - dmingod666 6y ago
        Thank you, TIL :)
        hardlianotion 6y ago
        I wasn't correcting you, I was agreeing enthusiastically. And now I am ashamed for explaining myself.
    - 6y ago

gnrlst 6y ago

Judging by the amount of Cat emoji reactions, I would go as far as saying your cat is a regular on that Slack channel :)

jrootabega 6y ago

Changing the send action to Ctrl-Enter (or maybe it was Shift-Enter?) helps with this. It also helps prevent accidental yubikey posts and is good for when you need to write up multiline posts. Just saying in case anyone wasn't already aware.

jSully24 6y ago
Thanks for the tip. I wonder how many unfinished messages I’ll send before my muscle memory remembers I’ve switched?
- jrootabega 6y ago
  Heh, yeah, I had a funny story about this:
- kamyarg 6y ago
  I enabled a delay for gmail that from the moment I click send I have 10s to cancel the email and it let's me edit it. Has been very useful so far.

kebman 6y ago

Skål!

dmingod666 6y ago

Ah! Reminds me of the good old 956th email about: "Please don't reply to all@company.com it goes to everyone" Each person in the mail list is convinced they need to send a reply to that mail informing everyone that the others should not reply to this email address, otherwise how would everyone know they're not supposed to reply to that email.

galangalalgol 6y ago
Why does that happen? I've seen it a few times and once it brought down exchange. Psychology study needed.
- dmingod666 6y ago
  My hypothesis is, the level of peoples education and intelligence are not correlated (ofcourse with exception of the technical and STEM fields).
  - z77dj3kl 6y ago
    I'm not sure I agree. But why would that exception be "of course" anyway?
  - hardlianotion 6y ago
    “of course with exception of the technical and STEM fields” of course
    - dmingod666 6y ago
      Thank you, TIL :)
      - hardlianotion 6y ago
        I wasn't correcting you, I was agreeing enthusiastically. And now I am ashamed for explaining myself.
  - 6y ago