Sign-up forms: re-enter e-mail! What do you do?

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Sign-up forms: re-enter e-mail! What do you do?

I re-enter the e-mail
3
43%
I just copy/paste it
4
57%
 
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Sign-up forms: re-enter e-mail! What do you do?

Post by scorphus »

When filling out sign-up forms that require you to re-enter your e-mail address, you re-enter it in the other field or just copy/paste?

I think this kind of thing is useless. Share your opinion on this matter.

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Post by Gen-ik »

I normally re-enter the password just to make sure I haven't made a stooopid mistake. The same applies for when you're asked to re-enter a chosen password on a registration form.

I don't think they are completely useless, but they are not 100% reliable either. If a user sees that they need to re-enter a bit of info then they will normally pay a bit more attention to what they are typing.... even if they do just copy and paste it.
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Post by JayBird »

i do both, just depends how i am feeling at the time.

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Post by devork »

it takes
-copy the text
-move to specific point
-paste

3 sec to type email address again :wink:
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Post by Jean-Yves »

I always retype the email address, unless I've copied it from a valid source beforehand!
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Post by JayBird »

devork: depends how long your email address is. The one i use for web-forms to handle spam is way long!
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Post by scorphus »

I've been watching people (including my friends) filling forms on my school's lab (we developed a survey about some of our intranet's new features last week). I saw many of them (above 70%) doing exactly as devork describes above.
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Post by maniac9 »

maybe it just depends on intellect?

the ones who need to retype it are the ones who don't know what Ctrl+C, Tab, Ctrl+V means in the first place...

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Post by qads »

i copy and paste...cos i can :twisted:

i KNOW my email is right, my spam email is not long at all so i can see it in 20 char field :D.
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Post by Gen-ik »

maniac9 wrote:maybe it just depends on intellect?

the ones who need to retype it are the ones who don't know what Ctrl+C, Tab, Ctrl+V means in the first place...

;)
Maybe it just depends on if you're a lazy bone-idol git?

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