I've realised that for non-English speakers - or even for some English speakers - that the disposal in /me may not be entirely clear what its actually for.
'Disposal' isn't really a word we use casually, so for younger people or for some English speakers or especially for non-English speakers, when they see the word disposal its likely not going to be immediately obvious what it means. A lot of us assume that its clear, because we know English well and we know what disposal means - but for those who don't, it doesn't really tell you that it will delete your items.
The image for it doesn't tell you what disposal is either or even imply that it'll delete your items. You might argue that yeah, but its a black hole! It looks like a black hole, its gonna suck your items in. But, really, we only come to that conclusion because we already know what disposal means. If someone goes into /me, is told to do disposal to clear up inventory space, doesn't know what disposal is, that picture isn't going to make it any more clear to them that it will delete their items.
So, my suggestion is to make disposal clearer. A couple ways this could be done:
1) Add a message into chat that warns that all items will be deleted
2) Before it opens the disposal GUI, have something pop up that explains the items you put in disposal will be deleted. This can either come up only the first time that the disposal GUI is opened, or it can be automatically enabled and then can mention inside of the message that it can be disabled in settings if you want to go straight to opening the disposal GUI
3) Have the description change - right now its "Would you like to dispose some of your items?" which means absolutely nothing to people who don't know what dispose or disposal means
I'm sure there are other ways this could be done too, so feel free to suggest some more!
'Disposal' isn't really a word we use casually, so for younger people or for some English speakers or especially for non-English speakers, when they see the word disposal its likely not going to be immediately obvious what it means. A lot of us assume that its clear, because we know English well and we know what disposal means - but for those who don't, it doesn't really tell you that it will delete your items.
The image for it doesn't tell you what disposal is either or even imply that it'll delete your items. You might argue that yeah, but its a black hole! It looks like a black hole, its gonna suck your items in. But, really, we only come to that conclusion because we already know what disposal means. If someone goes into /me, is told to do disposal to clear up inventory space, doesn't know what disposal is, that picture isn't going to make it any more clear to them that it will delete their items.
So, my suggestion is to make disposal clearer. A couple ways this could be done:
1) Add a message into chat that warns that all items will be deleted
2) Before it opens the disposal GUI, have something pop up that explains the items you put in disposal will be deleted. This can either come up only the first time that the disposal GUI is opened, or it can be automatically enabled and then can mention inside of the message that it can be disabled in settings if you want to go straight to opening the disposal GUI
3) Have the description change - right now its "Would you like to dispose some of your items?" which means absolutely nothing to people who don't know what dispose or disposal means
I'm sure there are other ways this could be done too, so feel free to suggest some more!
