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A comment on All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (2011). Parent comment

Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by NegativeLatency on Friday May 11, 2018 @02:19AM (#17045297)
I still enter January 1st, 1900 when given the chance on web forms.

Partly out of habit, partly laziness, and partly for the satisfaction of exposing the stupidity of the age questionnaire.

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Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by Qwertie on Friday May 11, 2018 @08:25AM (#17046740)
It's not stupid. The purpose is to shift the blame away from the website when you access something you shouldn't.
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Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by TheCoelacanth on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:23PM (#17049153)
That is still pretty stupid. Either the website shouldn't be responsible for controlling access or they should have to take steps that are actually effective for controlling access. The idea that they have the responsibility to control access to their website but can fulfill that responsibility by doing something that they know is completely ineffective is pretty stupid.
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Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by pbhjpbhj on Friday May 11, 2018 @07:58AM (#17046574)
1/1/2000 is less scrolling.
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Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by derivagral on Friday May 11, 2018 @08:48AM (#17046898)
You can hit numbers (or letters) on most dropdowns to skip entries; home/end key shortcuts also tend to work.
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