The Stupidest Validation Rules

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10 points·Akcium··5 comments

One of the stupidest I run into are the dolts that use location services to validate an address. For example they use Google location, which in my area is often different from their own maps.

Another one I run into is the name space that wants first and middle names ... when an individual happens to have no middle name.

Fortunately I'm rather hard, dolts for website coders ... the rest is probably dodgy as well, time to move on ...

When I was coding an app in Russia I found out that middle name is not a required thing in our laws, while the employer insisted to make it required.

Names are a whole different topic, take a look at THIS: https://twitter.com/Hung_TT_Nguyen/status/150393686591691981...

That's certainly a problem for a global site. Perhaps there's a need for name style box.

Oh another annoyance is the insistence there is a mobile phone number. I figure the dolts work it out in the end, there is a certain amount who are using that old number they had ten years ago :) ... the next pattern is they then set it to use sms to verify that number ... at which point I figure they're more interesting in mining personal data ... time to move on ...

Does anybody has anything to add to this collection?

Related (about password rules):

https://github.com/duffn/dumb-password-rules

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