I understand the people who are saying they do it for fun, even if i disagree with them. I don't understand the people replying to say they keep pressing the button because there's no acknowledgment that the button has been pressed.

The beepboop sound *is* the acknowledgement. And if it doesn't make a beepboop sound, that's a different issue and not related to this gripe of mine -- that some people make incessant beeping sounds because they keep pressing it over and over while they wait.

@MLE_online but its satisfying. There are fewer and fewer things in the world that give you instant feedback to your input.

{Rue waits for the keyboard to catch up and find out what characters it missed}

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I like them because they give me an acknowledgement that I've pushed the button. I can push it only once and still be confident that I'll get a green light eventually.

With the old ones, I have no way of knowing if the button is actually making contact.

I especially like the ones that make a sound when the light turns green. That way, I can look at something else (like my phone) while I wait.

I know they're designed for disabled people, but they're useful for me too!

@MLE_online ours don't make a sound when you press them, but there are some I've come to mash repeatedly because they theoretically detect presence to see if the person has wandered off, so it knows to not bother with the crossing, but then sometimes they decide I'm not there any more and I eventually notice that the ring of lights around the button has gone out and then I become angry at it

See also, vaguely relatedly: being on my bike, waiting in the bike section of a pedestrian crossing, seeing some people wander up to the pedestrian part and stand there and just... not press the button, even though that will instantly trigger the lights there, whilst I'm either not detected or don't get the same level of priority and so have to awkwardly move myself forwards and press the button from the wrong side

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LOL, in LA it seems most folks don't even know there's a button to push. They'll stand at a corner looking at their phone and miss multiple lights.

I don't think we will last much longer as a species.

@MLE_online No, it doesn't make it go faster… but

1. it passes time waiting for it to go green
2. as there's no acknowledgement when you press the button, in the event there's an intermittent switch, it ensures at least *one* of those button presses was received