You shouldn’t read too much into the amount of people pressing the button in terms of malice, but you can read into it in terms of negligence, lack of caution or impulsiveness. It’s how many people saw a big red button and pressed it without first checking what it does. It’s how many people took the chance that pressing it may do something bad even without the launch codes.
I was also curious what happens if you press the button and don’t enter the code, but didn’t check, because I view pressing the button as something you just don’t do—I wouldn’t do it even if a site admin specifically told me “you can press the button without any consequence”.
Though, having pressed the button, it was a good idea to publish how it looks, and you satisfied my curiosity.
I’d fairly strongly disagree with that take. I think it’s an extremely reasonable assumption that a somewhat cartoony red button someone put at the top of a website deliberately does not do harm to press. Someone deliberately chose to put it there, and most features on websites are optimised for user interaction. This only looks unreasonable within the strong frame of having cultural context about Petrov Day
Fair, though I still tend to check what things I press on do before I press them. If there’s no explanation I might still press them, but if it says “learn more” right there I will probably learn more before I do.
You shouldn’t read too much into the amount of people pressing the button in terms of malice, but you can read into it in terms of negligence, lack of caution or impulsiveness. It’s how many people saw a big red button and pressed it without first checking what it does. It’s how many people took the chance that pressing it may do something bad even without the launch codes.
I was also curious what happens if you press the button and don’t enter the code, but didn’t check, because I view pressing the button as something you just don’t do—I wouldn’t do it even if a site admin specifically told me “you can press the button without any consequence”.
Though, having pressed the button, it was a good idea to publish how it looks, and you satisfied my curiosity.
I’d fairly strongly disagree with that take. I think it’s an extremely reasonable assumption that a somewhat cartoony red button someone put at the top of a website deliberately does not do harm to press. Someone deliberately chose to put it there, and most features on websites are optimised for user interaction. This only looks unreasonable within the strong frame of having cultural context about Petrov Day
Fair, though I still tend to check what things I press on do before I press them. If there’s no explanation I might still press them, but if it says “learn more” right there I will probably learn more before I do.
Yeah I guess you can read into it in terms of negligence, lack of caution or impulsiveness.