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There's a limit to this principle. There's not always something you can fix to prevent people from abusing your product or system.

Are the instructions for the Club bad, or what? I'm usually the first person to say "you don't need to propose an alternative for your criticism to be valid". I think in this case, however, where the validity of the criticism is predicated in the existence of alternatives, you really need to give one.



Sounds like the club needs more "affordances" to help the user.

Maybe a sticker with ↑up↑ and ↓down↓ printed on it, in such a way that the text is upside down if the club is locked incorrectly.




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