Comments on: If your UI designer doesn’t understand this, fire him http://www.cycloneranger.com/2007/04/if-your-ui-designer-doesnt-understand-this-fire-him.html "I see patterns" - Ernie Hacks Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:05:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Justin http://www.cycloneranger.com/2007/04/if-your-ui-designer-doesnt-understand-this-fire-him.html/comment-page-1#comment-37 Justin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-37 Very interesting read (the blog). I jumped onto Topix to check it out and was horrified by the level of discourse in the forums. Perhaps Philly is just a bad example but the PICURE OF WHATS ON SEEING THE NEWS FOR YOU! was enough to drive me insane after about 5 minutes. I guess if you attract a community at random your virtual neighborhood can quickly become defined by the earliest visitors. I, for one, was dissuaded from participating because almost all of the forums for my region were: 1. Impossible to read if more than 20 comments were posted 2. The quality of the posts were extremely poor, they were often rambling, pointless and completely devoid of grammar or spell checking, but often were inflammatory as well. 3. The news highlighted wasn't actually what I feel to be topical. 4. The comment history actually discouraged me from posting to some stories (because they appeared stale, having last been updated/commented upon days ago). Just my (somewhat OT) thoughts. Very interesting read (the blog). I jumped onto Topix to check it out and was horrified by the level of discourse in the forums. Perhaps Philly is just a bad example but the PICURE OF WHATS ON SEEING THE NEWS FOR YOU! was enough to drive me insane after about 5 minutes. I guess if you attract a community at random your virtual neighborhood can quickly become defined by the earliest visitors. I, for one, was dissuaded from participating because almost all of the forums for my region were:

1. Impossible to read if more than 20 comments were posted
2. The quality of the posts were extremely poor, they were often rambling, pointless and completely devoid of grammar or spell checking, but often were inflammatory as well.
3. The news highlighted wasn’t actually what I feel to be topical.
4. The comment history actually discouraged me from posting to some stories (because they appeared stale, having last been updated/commented upon days ago).

Just my (somewhat OT) thoughts.

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