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Asked: 2026-05-11T02:44:17+00:00

I’m currently working on a program that has many of those the user SHOULD

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I’m currently working on a program that has many of those ‘the user SHOULD read it but he’ll click OK like a stupid monkey’ dialogs… So I was thinking of adding something like a captcha in order to avoid click-without thinking…

My ideas were:

  • Randomly change buttons
  • Randomly position buttons somewhere on the form
  • The user must click on a randomly colored word within the text he should read
  • add captcha
  • add captcha that includes the message for the user

Has anybody made any experience with such a situation. What would you suggest to do?

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  1. Well, you asked for opinions and here goes mine, but I don’t think this is what you would like to hear…

    Users like programs that they can depend on. They don’t like when things change and they don’t like to do extra work.

    Randomly change buttons and Randomly position buttons somewhere on the form will only make them either press the wrong button or become annoyed with your application, because as you say, they don’t read the text, and if you think about it, neither do we. As an example think of an Ok/Cancel dialog, you allways expect the ok button to be on the left, and most times i press it without reading it. It Will happen exactly the same with your users.

    • The user must click on a randomly colored word within the text he should read
    • add captcha
    • add captcha that includes the message for the user

    With these 3 option you will add extra work to your application, your users will curse you for that. Just think of something that you would have to do 10x per day, let’s say check in your code to source safe. How would you feel if your boss told you that from now on you will have to fill a captcha for each file you try to check in?

    I think it’s our jobs to make the lives of the people that use our software easier. If they must read some kind of text and they don’t want to, there is absolutely no way you can make them do it.

    You can´t make people work right, all you can do is provide them with the best possible tools and hope that they are professional enough to do their jobs.

    So basically all i’m saying is, do your best to ease their work. If this is really important than you(or whoever is in charge) should talk to them and EXPLAIN WHY this is important.

    You would be surprised on how people commit to things they understand.

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