Re: Ensure single session per user

Marnen Laibow-Koser
2010-02-17T20:54:07Z

Nick Gins wrote:
> Robert Walker wrote:
>> Nick Gins wrote:
>>> My current rationale for allowing the second person to bump the
first
>>> person is to get them annoyed enough for them to have 2 separate
user
>>
>> Well, I hope you have a captive audience. The first time a site
>> "annoyed" me in the manner would be the last time
I''d use the site. If I
>> had any choice in the matter anyway.
>
> I do have a very exclusive market for my site as this is really a
> project for a very niche market for a larger company.  The annoyance
> factor is to prevent them from hurting themselves by creating a single
> user account for their office and just entering all the data by several
> different people at the same time and then reporting against that.  Not
> good.

If users will be "hurting themselves", then they won''t do it.
If you
annoy your users, you will lose your users.  I totally agree with Robert
here.

In other words: provide obvious rewards for doing it the right way.
Don''t provide deliberate annoyance for doing it the wrong way.

>
> I need help with a code example.  Thank you for the help, but I need
> help with a visual example so I can see how it''s done.
>

Just don''t.

> Thank you,
>
> Nick

Best,
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