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IE6 is still trolling developers

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Re: IE6 is still trolling developers

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Post by howellnick »

rwhitman wrote: post #5

Bad defaults is one of my favorite user incentive tricks. Can't get users to upload their photo? Give them a super ugly picture as the default. They'll change it immediately out of disgust

In a way I think this is less intrusive (and clever). These are merely "suggested defaults" that never actually get displayed on the user's profile. Actually using bad defaults may have the undesired effect of people not changing the bad default.

Re: IE6 is still trolling developers

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Post by masklinn »

benologist wrote: post #3

I don't get it ... half their users didn't add any skills so they added "Loving IE6" and created news?

* Half the users didn't configure their skillsets

* Coderwall set "suggested defaults" of "Loving IE6" and "Visual Basic" (which kind-of look like those are the skills set for your account)

* After that, 92% of users have configured their skillset.

Re: IE6 is still trolling developers

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Post by TheBoff »

rwhitman wrote: post #5

Bad defaults is one of my favorite user incentive tricks. Can't get users to upload their photo? Give them a super ugly picture as the default. They'll change it immediately out of disgust

In Garry's Mod the default name was "Mingebag". That's very much reflective of Garry's sense of humour...

Re: IE6 is still trolling developers

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Post by rwhitman »

rwhitman wrote: post #5

Bad defaults is one of my favorite user incentive tricks. Can't get users to upload their photo? Give them a super ugly picture as the default. They'll change it immediately out of disgust

Another tip - always set default profile gender to "Female". Women are less prone to feeling alienated by gender, but guys typically get uncomfortable with being labeled as a woman and will change it

Re: IE6 is still trolling developers

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Post by dhx »

rwhitman wrote: post #15
rwhitman wrote: post #5

Bad defaults is one of my favorite user incentive tricks. Can't get users to upload their photo? Give them a super ugly picture as the default. They'll change it immediately out of disgust

Another tip - always set default profile gender to "Female". Women are less prone to feeling alienated by gender, but guys typically get uncomfortable with being labeled as a woman and will change it

Unless you're operating a World of Warcraft forum :)

Re: IE6 is still trolling developers

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Post by devgutt »

You could use "Loving SOPA" or "Loving GoDaddy" too :) ...Seriously, I don´t like this approach, it´s much better find an objective to this information that seems mere informative in the site. And more, could you get this information directly from github?

Re: IE6 is still trolling developers

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Post by JoachimSchipper »

swanson wrote: post #6

This really rubs me the wrong way and I just revoked access to my Github account for Coderwall. You are adding content that appears to be added by me, but that I did not authorize you to add to my profile. Not cool.

Parent appears to be a good-faith contribution to the discussion. Please do not downvote it just because you disagree.

Re: IE6 is still trolling developers

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Post by geoka9 »

rwhitman wrote: post #5

Bad defaults is one of my favorite user incentive tricks. Can't get users to upload their photo? Give them a super ugly picture as the default. They'll change it immediately out of disgust

This is akin to ridiculing your customers until they cave in and bow to your bidding. I don't think it's good to treat your users that way.

Re: IE6 is still trolling developers

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Post by geoka9 »

howellnick wrote: post #10
swanson wrote: post #6

This really rubs me the wrong way and I just revoked access to my Github account for Coderwall. You are adding content that appears to be added by me, but that I did not authorize you to add to my profile. Not cool.

They did not add any content whatsoever. facepalm It's simply a mind trick to get a much higher percent of users to add their skills to their profile.

Do these defaults appear in the list of user's skills or not?
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