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I came in to say precisely this. It’s easy to point fingers after the fact but probably the person wouldn’t have checked regardless of the message in the dialog
by farmerstan 4y ago
I came in to say precisely this. It’s easy to point fingers after the fact but probably the person wouldn’t have checked regardless of the message in the dialog box.
“They warned me but because I didn’t read the dialog box because it was too boring!
- sbarre 4y agoif you RTFA he did actually read the dialog box (which is where he found out that it would delete the stars) he just didn't notice the 1 line in a 30+ line generic modal. He accepts responsibility for what he did, but points out the very real opportunity to improve the UI/UX of a very destructive operation with real contextual data about what is about to be destroyed.
- pharrington 4y agoYou can only confirm the dialog box by typing in that line you're saying he didn't notice.
- Brian_K_White 4y agoReads article and somehow misses it's entire thoroughly examined point, chides author for not paying attention.
- pharrington 4y agoIf I understood the blog post correctly, the author wants the "You will PERMANENTLY lose: All stars and watchers from the repository" to be changed to "[...] X stars and Y watchers..." Which I agree would be a better UI.
- cycomanic 4y agoLike so often we can easily judge this by how willing we would be to accept the same behaviour in real life and I'm pretty certain that most would not accept an UI where you could e.g. just give away your house by writing the wrong adress into some form.
- farmerstan 4y agoI did RTFA. I do not accept the excuse that he didn’t read it properly. He skimmed it because he thought it was the same box but it wasn’t. He even admits that it contained the exact information that he was looking for. I don’t see any way he can complain.
- sbarre 4y agoOk then. I hope others are less judgmental of you than you are of them next you make a mistake in life.
- farmerstan 4y agoI take ownership over my mistakes. I don’t try to blame others. The world would be a better place if everyone did that.
- sbarre 4y agoI believe the world would be a better place if we all showed a bit more compassion towards each other, but let's agree to disagree.
- farmerstan 4y agoI am very compassionate towards their loss. It must suck to have mistakenly destroyed their community. However I draw the line when they falsely blame others for their own mistake. You can be compassionate for a mistake and still insist someone take ownership over this own careless error instead of blaming others. You mistake compassion for “let them do or say whatever they want because they are a victim”.
- sbarre 4y agoIf all you read out of that article was blaming, then you didn't read it very closely. The main takeway that I took from that article was the seemingly low effort improvement that could be made to the UI/UX of that action, which could help other people not make the same mistake. That's not about blaming Github vs. themselves, it's a reasonable critique of an existing system and looking for ways to make it better for everyone. Unless you think there is no room for improvement in that system at all.