• (cs)

    Perhaps the original developer of this feature was thinking about this wildly popular site from the early days of the WWW: http://www.pixelscapes.com/spatulacity/button.htm.

  • Jimmy (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Saying "Do Not Click" is like telling someone not to yawn.
    Thanks.
  • GenerousCycleGiver (unregistered) in reply to Thomas Dark
    Thomas Dark:
    Clicking it takes up a few extra CPU cycles.

    We can't let those CPU cycles go to waste!

    That's right - an unused cycle is a wasted cycle

    http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/

  • iMalc (unregistered)

    [Do Not Quote]

  • (cs)

    Hang on...

    Matthew E:
    “Following is an excerpt from the several-thousand-line include-file that forms the bulk of each page load.”
    Surely at the very least it's cached clientside.
  • (cs) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    Do not read this comment.

    Do not read this comment again.

  • Alex (unregistered) in reply to Justin
    Justin:
    However, TRWTF is the use of $_REQUEST, which can come from POST or GET
    I don't see what's wrong with that. A client can set both the query and POST variables, so there is basically no point in trying to make a distinction.
  • pandera (unregistered) in reply to Your name
    Your name:
    Do not quote this post!

    Quoting this post has now been disabled due to abuse.

    Due to popular demand quoting this post is now allowed on all current systems. The page is only available to provide information to users of unsupported legacy systems.

    Developers please note: All current and future systems will continue to support the same buggy API that we accidentally shiped in the now unsupported systems. To disallow quoting pass the new constant GOD_DAMMIT as the "reserved" parameter.

    PANDAPANDA qote panda

  • mr X (unregistered)

    On a system I worked on, we had a 'do not click this button' button for testing purposes. To show that it had been clicked successfully, on the resultant page it changed to a 'do not click this button again' button.

    How we laughed when we rolled that out to production without remembering to remove it first.

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