What does it take to make people not delete their accounts

re: What does it take to make people not delete their accounts

Tim Marman — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:39:00 GMT

Deleting an account by checking or unchecking a checkbox is a terrible thing in the first place :)

At least make it a big button saying "DELETE MY ACCOUNT" or something!

re: What does it take to make people not delete their accounts

Drew Marsh — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 06:41:00 GMT

People don't read what they don't have to... it's a fact. Therefore for exceptional situations like this you need to be extremely blunt and add a double check. For a web interface, a simple call to window.confirm works quite well.

re: What does it take to make people not delete their accounts

Yosi Taguri — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 05:16:00 GMT

I thought it was pretty funny, He was OK and a bit frustrated.. he enabled the account.

re: What does it take to make people not delete their accounts

Darrell — Wed, 31 Dec 2003 05:13:00 GMT

The funny thing is he blames the user, even though other users are obviously also having trouble understanding the page. "When you point a finger at people, realize where the other 3 are pointing."