Can we get a little doohickey to undelete a tag from interesting tags?

Question

When I want to go look at a specific tag in my "interesting tags", its very easy for me to "misclick" and hit the delete "X" on accident. Its very annoying because I have no feedback as to what I deleted. I have to look over the tags and try and guess what's not there. I feel kind of dumb complaining about it, but alas, it has become rather annoying.

It would be nice if a little info bar linky thingy (highly technical term) under the interesting tags told you "You deleted php click to undo". This is synonomous with what happens when you delete in gmail. You can easily hit "undo" if you deleted unintentionally, and it avoids a stupid confirmation window "Do you REALLLY TRULY want to delete php".

I'll add that although it seems trivial, its the most annoying usability problems I have with the site. I bookmark a good number of "interesting tags", and then I can very easily mistakenly lose one, and I can't figure out what's not there without spending at least a few minutes scanning my interesting tags. This is a significant distraction from my usage of the site.

Answer 1

There's a good article on A List Apart about this web UI consideration.

This leads to one of the most basic and important mantras of interface design: Never use a warning when you mean undo.

Google Mail is a outstanding example of this mantra. When you delete an e-mail, it immediately gives you an option to undo that action. How humane! This neatly sidesteps the issue of warnings (as well as the visibility issue of undo). When we make a mistake (which we are bound to do) it isn’t very costly because we can just undo it. With undo, we spend less time worrying and more time doing work.

From: A List Apart: Articles: Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo

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Edit: Now that I tried it out, I see that SO does neither the elegant solution (undo) nor the inelegant solution (confirmation dialog). It just deletes the tag the moment you click the button.