No, really, delete the fucker! I’m mixed on confirmations for destructive actions. If you can undo it (like in Explorer or Finder), don’t bother asking. If it’s permanent, it’s probably reasonable to ask. Asking twice, however, is never, ever OK. In cleaning out my Delicious bookmarks today, I ran into this idiotic, double-confirmation pattern. Coupled with the process timing out (or something) when I was trying to do 100 at a time (I was deleting over 1000 bookmarks), it made for a massively irritating process. First, you have to click to get a “bulk edit” UI:
So far, so good. Click Delete, and a confirmation replaces the text:
The count is nice, the buttons obvious. Yay. Click OK to confirm, however, and you get …another confirmation:
For god’s sake, yes! I had to perform four actions already! I’m not fat-fingering it! I swear!
Epic Fail, Delicious.