I’ve read some very user hostile things in my career, but this one is particular...

francislavoie · 2024-10-29T12:17:32 1730204252

I'm not being user hostile. I'm being cognizant that the skill levels of users is extremely wide, and to best serve everyone from a UX standpoint, it's best to limit the characters accepted in the input. It protects the user, helps them avoid mistakes.

guappa · 2024-10-29T12:36:18 1730205378

From reading your comments, you're extremely user hostile and I hope to not come across anything you work on because they are the very definition of antipatterns

francislavoie · 2024-10-29T12:43:17 1730205797

It's a decimal number field. There's no reason to have any other characters than [0-9\.-]* You're overreacting. You're attacking me for no reason.

guappa · 2024-10-29T13:50:59 1730209859

Except if one copied it and it has a space in the beginning and your amazing script won't let one paste it.

hluska · 2024-10-29T16:07:09 1730218029

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AnimalMuppet · 2024-10-29T16:20:21 1730218821

Not everyone who disagrees with you is lying. Accusing people is a bad look here on HN. "Assume good faith" is the standard.

You can say "You're wrong". "You're lying", though, is almost never appropriate, and is, in itself, quite hostile.

hluska · 2024-10-29T17:04:33 1730221473

Again “users are too stupid”. That’s remarkably hostile to users and doesn’t belong.

francislavoie · 2024-10-29T17:53:47 1730224427

Please read my other comments. I'm not using "stupid" in the derogatory sense. I'm using it as a recognition of the skill/knowledge gap between technical and non-technical users.

AnimalMuppet · 2024-10-29T17:39:36 1730223576

Fine. But "you're lying" is also hostile, and also doesn't belong.

(I see that you edited that bit out of your post, so thanks for listening...)