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In both cases the dialog clearly warns you, with bolded text, on a separate line, of the consequences of your actions. "We were in the top Xth percentile" make
by KennyBlanken 5y ago
In both cases the dialog clearly warns you, with bolded text, on a separate line, of the consequences of your actions.
"We were in the top Xth percentile" makes the author sound like a complete tool and I have little sympathy for them, especially given they're already back to 3k stars.
Expecting the dialog to say "now, you've got 50,000 stars, are you REALLY REALLY SURE?" is just infantile, but really matches the overall tone the author has.
- WesolyKubeczek 5y agoI'm afraid to think that these same people, having attitudes like this, are driving cars on public roads.
- vollmond 5y agoThe dialog clearly warns you that if you have something to delete, it will be deleted, but it doesn't let you know if there is anything to delete. That's not in itself a huge problem, but in this case it was compounded with the fact that the generic repo he was acting on is named inconsistently for users vs organizations, and he had just done it on his user account. If I'm reading correctly, a user's profile readme repo is `<user>/<user>`, while for organizations it is `<org>/.github`, and, crucially, `<org>/<org>` is almost always going to be the core project for that org. So yes, the warning says you will lose all stars on the project, but in the moment it would have seemed (to a fallible human brain who was in a user-space context) that this was the right repo, whereas a "you will lose 54k stars" message would have broken the user out of that space.