When I was working with a lot of users you have no idea how many people did not use the URL submission window and typed urls into search sites. They'd go to Yahoo or Google and type in www.website.com into the search, click search and then go on from there. The first few times I encountered it over the phone I could not get my head around it, because you'd be walking them through a DL and you'd say "Okay, go to mycompanywebsite.com" Then after about 40 seconds they'd say, ummmm okay I see a site for X and a site for X1, where is your site?"
It took me quite a bit to finally figure out what they were doing.
Who was it last week that that said licenses should be issued for internet use?
Incredible.
SteelAttack said:I recall reading some programmer joke about a dancing pig or some shit like that. People are stupid.
That's the Dancing pigs problem. It's a security adage that nomatter what you tell people, they'll always click the dancing pigs, security be damned. Not exactly relevant, but you can still feel the stupid.
aspro said:Yeah I heard about that a couple of weeks ago. Jaw dropping.
When I was working with a lot of users you have no idea how many people did not use the URL submission window and typed urls into search sites. They'd go to Yahoo or Google and type in www.website.com into the search, click search and then go on from there. The first few times I encountered it over the phone I could not get my head around it, because you'd be walking them through a DL and you'd say "Okay, go to mycompanywebsite.com" Then after about 40 seconds they'd say, ummmm okay I see a site for X and a site for X1, where is your site?"
It took me quite a bit to finally figure out what they were doing.
Who was it last week that that said licenses should be issued for internet use?
Incredible.
When I was working at the call centre, sometimes we'd get someone through our department that still needed to get to tech support, except they may or may not have a problem that tech support can deal with, in which case they'll reject the call. Naturally then I do what I can before-hand. One guy was really tough to figure out -- he was saying his Internet was showing "Mozilla Firefox". After a while I worked out he had Internet Explorer open, but his homepage set to mozilla.org. I swear that guy was someone from QA screwing with me.
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobile
The biggest case of user failure in history?
Just...read that.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." ~ Rich Cook
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Tell me to get back to rewriting this site so it's not horrible on mobile