[rhacker]

Wow, hadn't realized it was a dark pattern. After thinking it through though, is it really a bad way to update a page? I realize we have the tech to easily dynamically update content without user consideration, but that ends up leading to people clicking on the wrong thing (the order suddenly changed on them as the finger went down).

So given that an explicit refresh button either takes up screen space or is another action (say full page refresh?) should this really be considered a dark pattern if you're say, in your own inbox?