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what comment are you quoting? i dont see it.
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Well, I found it amusing :)
It'd probably be better as "Please enter your address", don't you think? Street name implies it only wants the name of the street, not the number.
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Daniel15 hit the nail almost on the head. The real WTF here is that the dialog should be asking for your "Street Address", NOT "Street Name". How would it know for example, that your address of 12345 21st St. is an invalid street address or not? It has no name but the number 21st might be a valid street name/address. The program probably recognized that the required field was simply empty, and should have asked for you to fill in the field correctly.
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Besides everyone here who doesn't found it funny, doe me it was the first laugh of my day. Thanks for the post.
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agree ... couldn't have said it better myself ...
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Weak.
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Powerfully lame.
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The real WTF here is that they're using JavaScript for form validation.
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If people of colour hadn't bastardised my language and claimed the illegitimate offspring as their own I wouldn't feel a need to mock it.
Captcha: Smile - let me see those gold fillings.
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I don't get it... If the "joke" is in the double meaning about your name on the street vs the name of the street you live when fillig out your address, what else are you meant to put in the error? Please enter your street or road name?
Longer and more wtf than simply street name...
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The fact that this made it to the cover page of TheDailyWTF really is worst than failure. Slow news day I guess.
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A sense of humour.
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Well, short of seeing the actual site, how do you know the number hasn't been filled in and only the name is missing?
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"Street Cred"
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The WTF is that you could take this meaning of the word "street".
About as funny as that girl from Seinfeld.
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Then don't stop by here. Cripes! Don't you dolts ever understand that it's not your decision to make about what gets posted here? Alex decides, just like he decides what the site name is; if he trusts a couple other people to make that choice on his behalf, that's his option. It's his site, people! If you don't like his choices, or those of his delegates, DON'T VISIT THE SITE!!!! Don't waste the time of people who choose to visit - we have to skip all of the idiotic whining of people like you.
So, instead of reducing the number of people who authorize front page posts, let's reduce the posts of imbeciles whining about the content and/or site name. It'll reduce the amount of wasted space here by half at least.
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I thought that's what was shown during the CAT scan of your skull.
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That's not a WTF, it saves a round trip across the network. Now, of course, the server should also be validating it, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't at least try to validate on the client side.
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No. Here's the question: Are you intelligent enough to understand that this isn't the Daily WTF post, it's Error'd. There is a difference.
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Except it's a far stretch to call it an error too.
Look, normally I'd agree with you about the whiners... even though some of the postings aren't that great, there's far too many repetitive complaints about the name change, about "poor" stories, etc.
What I don't agree with you on though is when people offer constructive criticism, they get labled as whiners and idiots who just shouldn't visit the site. Yes, it's Alex's site, but Alex isn't designing the site just for himself... he's doing it for others, for an audience, and that audience has come to expect certain things. Are there going to be complainers no matter how good the article is? Of course... you can't please everyone all the time. But at the same time, there's going to be a post that's a total flop and instead of bashing all the people that say that, read the well-thought out and well-written comments from some people that say "hey, honestly... this one isn't funny."
A few well-thought out comments were made about this post. Even though it's an "Error'd" post, it wasn't very good. It raised more confusion than it did amusement. Even when it was explained, it did more eyebrow raising of "What? There's nothing that amusing in that" than "Oh I get it now, ha ha ha!"
I ran a humour / satire website for five years. Neither the people on my team or I got paid for it. It was our site, we could post what we wanted. But when people complained or said that an article we posted wasn't very good or weak or unfunny, we listened, because ultimately we were writing and maintaining the site for them. If they weren't entertained, we were failing at something and it was best if we figured out what went wrong.
Anyway... my two pennies worth.
-- Seejay
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Exactly. Yes, it's free, and yes it's his site, but he's not putting it out here for himself, he's putting it out here for us. I would much rather see the standards pick up and get back a funny site than simply stop coming here, and I'm sure Alex wouldn't like it if half the readership simply left.
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Except, perhaps they're using Javascript and server-side code for validation. There's nothing wrong with saving the user from waiting for an error page to load, if the browser is capable of that.
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This IS a WTF and if you don't see that, you're part of the problem.
WTF is up with quoting everything? Do dumb-a$$es just like the way quotes look?
A local hotel had this posted on their sign recently:
Now serving "Breakfast"
What is it really? I can think of several of my own favorite pseudo-breakfasts but I don't think that's what they mean.
I saw an employment ad and they had "drug-free workplace" in quotes... wink, wink, nudge, nudge. I bet they have fun there. It was the only thing in quotes in the whole ad... WTF?
I would be very careful with this over-quoting trend... try asking a girl out for "dinner" some time. (Use finger quotes if it's a face-to-face conversation).
Quotation marks should be used for direct quotations or to impugn something as supposed or so-called.
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You should use whatever is in the requirements docs... oh, no requirements? Well then, you can say whatever is decided on - by whomever is the loudest.
If it were up to me, the validation would not be in an alert, msg box, or anything - but upon a validation, focus would be set to the street name field, with a big fat highlighted label: "DUMB ASS!".
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WTF is up with using "$" instead of just saying "dumb-asses"? You dumb ass.
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I totally didn't get.. To me it was like .. why is it putting quotes around a field that it has on the form.. then somebody pointed out to me that it could be interpreted as the system asking for the user's "street name" like.. Ice Cube or something
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I totally didn't get.. To me it was like .. why is it putting quotes around a field that it has on the form.. then somebody pointed out to me that it could be interpreted as the system asking for the user's "street name" like.. Ice Cube or something
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You seem to be new at this whole "web" thing, so I'll help you out: some forums attempt to filter out obscenities, and using $ or 5 for "S" can help circumvent the filter.
Have fun with your new toy. I am sure you will be pod-casting pictures of yourself in a K-Mart brassiere, starting a blog about your lame softball team, and Googling the cheerleaders from your local junior high school in no time at all!
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