Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140401205802/@comment-4849011-20140403004513

To the people who say, "Shoot, a lot of people who need this won't pay attention to this!" I say look at it like a warning label. Is a disclaimer saying, "Warning: This microwave is not to be used to dry clothes," going to stop someone who would be inclined to use it for that purpose? It might and it might not, but people can't blame the factory because they were warned. Likewise, if you have guidelines, people don't have the right to whine and complain about not being told what was and wasn't acceptable. Sure, they probably will anyway, but with guidelines established you can say, "Hey, we told you, so it's your own dang fault!"

[Note: I didn't make up that warning label about not drying clothes in a microwave. I'd be proud if I did, but it's from real life. There's a book called Wearing of This Garment Does Not Enable You to Fly: 101 Real Dumb Warning Labels by Jeff Koon, Andy Powell, and Tim Carroll (Free Press, 2003), and there actually is a microwave (the Sharp Carousel Microwave Oven) with a warning label that it "should not be used to dry clothes or newspapers."]