timeless writes:
> Quips are traditionally zany, but it seems that out of the box Sun and
> its target audience has no [sense of | tolerance for] humor. (This is
> not a judgment, merely a conclusion.)

I don't think that's quite true.  The fake putbacks and ARC cases
we've had have been pretty good.

The problem is that many of the people using this interface will be
doing so because they're experiencing problems.  You're not doing them
any favors if you're (virtually) laughing in their faces as they try
to research problem solutions.

We just want to have users think we care a bit about them.

> Sun isn't directly (to my knowledge) in the air plane / travel
> industry, however there's a tale about such a company which considered
> Bugzilla and encountered this message. I only know that they were
> understandably unhappy (I do not know if they changed it or picked
> another product).
> 
> Finally, if someone does change mid-air collision, I'd like to know
> what they pick instead (that's the other problem, how else do you
> explain what happened to the user). Basically it means that the report
> was changed between the time the user loaded the page and the time the
> user attempted to commit changes.

How about "Conflicting updates detected"?

(Why can't the message just say what happened?)

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