in reply to New Feature: Claim anonymously posted nodes

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I tried it out to give feedback, please ignore my "claim"

I don't think a one-click action via an ?op=claim is the right way to go.

A msg -link would require two clicks, and avoid unnecessary traffic.

Or better you could link to a dedicated self documenting claim page, with an ?claimed_node=ID argument and a form requiring an explicit submit.

Please have in mind that newbies are often so overwhelmed that they just click&error thru everything. And many bots are even worse.

At least I was back then. :)

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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Re^2: New Feature: Claim anonymously posted nodes
by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 02, 2025 at 19:55 UTC

    It has always been the case that a user could /msg the gods to ask for re-owning a node. Do you know how often that ability has been exercised? Like, about once in 25 years. We want to make it as easy and obvious as possible. If you don't need it, you can ignore it. If you don't need it, you can hide the link by styling p.claimit in CSS.

    they just click&error thru everything. And many bots are even worse.

    Newbies we can handle. Bots won't have access to it.
    Anyway, if that turns out to be a problem, we can address it then. Until then... don't worry about it.

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        And it is much appreciated. Thank you.

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