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Discussion summary

A bug affecting only left-handed users on LinkedIn caused accidental likes when scrolling. Users discussed the issue's implications, potential design biases, and age-related finger challenges.

What the discussion says

  • Left-handed users experience accidental interactions due to UI placement.
  • Some suggest avoiding LinkedIn or using alternative methods.
  • Concerns about dark patterns encouraging accidental clicks.
  • Age-related finger dexterity issues affect smartphone use.
“I'm left handed and often accidentally like posts on LinkedIn mobile.”
— sixhobbits
“The 'like' button is very close to where I naturally touch the screen.”
— sixhobbits

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  • As i was scrolling the comments with my left hand, i inadvertently opened comment replies three times...
    by queenkjuul
  • > A bug which won't be triggered by righteous people but infuriating to those who will surely be left behind after The Rapture™.

    Or perhaps the righteous versus the sinister.

    by Terr_
  • Right-handed, and I run into this bug constantly.
    by cwillu
  • I had to read this a couple times and look at the comments here before I realized they were talking about scrolling on a phone. I was like "who scrolls with their thumb?"
    by BrenBarn
  • I'm righthanded and I usually hold my phone in my left hand so I can do clicking and typing with my right hand, but I often do basic scrolling with my left thumb.
    by gpvos
  • The worst curse put upon us is XNA games engine, which was unable to distinguish primary from secondary clicks. So players who swapped mouse buttons at the OS level were out of luck.

    Most developers assumed that left click = primary click, but that's only true about 95% of the time.

    Terraria, among others, still has this bug.

    by Gunax
  • As a lefty, his tongue in cheek derision toward lefties still pisses me off genuinely.

    I’m old enough to have been smacked around by a teacher as a kid for writing with my left hand. Right-handed bias is EVERYWHERE. Everywhere. Right-handed people will never notice it until they look for it, and even then it’s hard to see.

    So yeah I am sure the ribbing is nothing more than “a sensible chuckle” for right-handed people, us southpaws are not laughing. And if you try to tell me you are, I seriously doubt that you are left-handed.

    by naikrovek
  • Reminds me of this old youtube bug where some of the videos that were uploaded ended up upside down because of a phone orientation during recording:

    https://bruteforceswimathon.medium.com/youtube-help-my-video...

    by incognito124

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