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Re:Robinhood sued by family of stock trader who killed himself by fatnoah on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:11AM (#26078343)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-kearns-robinhood-trader-su...

The article in the top post is missing details. Robinhood actually demanded $170k from him to settle his account. It wasn't a UI issue.

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Re:Robinhood sued by family of stock trader who killed himself by ethbr0 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:14AM (#26078385)
From that article, "the company sent an automated email demanding Alex take "immediate action," requesting a payment of more than $170,000 in just a few days..."
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Re:Robinhood sued by family of stock trader who killed himself by madamelic on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:28AM (#26078556)
It definitely was a UI issue.

Email is part of UI / UX. Either they were programmed loosely or the email was poorly worded.

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Re:Robinhood sued by family of stock trader who killed himself by Rooster61 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @10:31AM (#26078593)
Email is indeed UI. Whether or not to send that email is business logic, and therefore not UI. Something on the backend though that this guy owed that much money, and thus the email was sent out. UI doesn't happen in a vacuum.
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