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What a pointlessly elaborate way of arriving at the conclusion that the button actually doesn't work. Sorry, but from the POV of the user one does not care whe
by vultour 4y ago
What a pointlessly elaborate way of arriving at the conclusion that the button actually doesn't work.
Sorry, but from the POV of the user one does not care whether it's the "elevator controller" blocking the input or the button is not connected at all. The end result is the same - you walk into the elevator, press the button, and nothing happens. Hitting an annoyed user with an anecdotal "actually if the door hold timer was longer the button would work just fine!!!" doesn't help in the slightest.
- bandyaboot 4y agoI take it as a push back against the mildly conspiratorial thinking that elevator companies left in an explicitly non-functioning button for the sake of giving people a sense of control.
- mynameisvlad 4y agoDid you… actually read the article? If you got “the button actually doesn’t work” out of the same article that I did, then one of us needs to take reading comprehension lessons.
- moron4hire 4y agoThat's a bit like saying your computer's shutdown sequence "doesn't work" because it prioritizes ending processes gracefully before actually powering off the computer.
- vultour 4y agoNo, it's like having a computer that's already in the shutdown sequence and somebody puts a magical button in front of you and says if you press this it's going to turn the computer off. Then when you press it nothing changes because the computer is already shutting down waiting for the processes to stop.