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For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

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Post by wmeredith »

selectnull wrote: post #8

Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun. On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.

This was my reaction as well. It seems like pandering in a degrading way. Right now in Las Vegas, there are street vendors that will let you kick them in the balls for $20. It stirs a weird mix of pity, respect and annoyance: Why are you like this? That's pretty clever/funny. What about me, makes you assume that I would want to do that?

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

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Post by dswiese »

DanBC wrote: post #37
stigi wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I did, but it was all but comfortable.

I grabbed a few sheep fences, and they weren't pleasant but not horrible. I grabbed a few cow fences, and they were not fun . I never made the mistake of peeing on one.

the further out in the fields the less the fence hurts, we would get a couple city cousins to grab them way out in the field, see they were safe. Then back closer to where the line started, just tell them to go pee on the corner fence post.... its safe...

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

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Post by CodeMage »

selectnull wrote: post #8

Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun. On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.

I read the first sentence and thought "Milgram experiment". For the rest of my time on the page, I had to fight the urge to just press the back button. As the parent said, congrats on tech, but this just made me shudder.

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Post by jonlucc »

selectnull wrote: post #8

Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun. On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.

I think this speaks to our interest in clicking things on websites and seeing things happen in the real world. There have been several sites like this, but the most memorable for me was the one that allowed you to create a song to be played in a company office.

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Post by antsar »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #32
alexcroox wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aw man we are pretty much all devs here, didn't mean it to come across like that :(

Your sites front page is absolutely superb.

Agreed. The only thing I saw that I would change is the highlight color (currently pink) in the bottommost area (also pink). Its a couple of shades lighter but still very hard to see.

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Post by sp332 »

mortov wrote: post #23
stigi wrote: post #14

Seriously? Giving people electric shocks for fun? I don't even wanna try that...

Sure about that ? The Milgram Experiment would suggest otherwise ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment ).

Nothing about that was "for fun".

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

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Post by salgernon »

meriksson wrote: post #12

I have often wished for this exact feature when using software of poor quality. E.g. years ago when I still used Microsoft Windows, I often had the thought that it would be appropriate if I could press a button to buzz the developers responsible for a particular part of the system. Very happy to see that a similar idea has been implemented, and I hope it catches on. =)

Interestingly, we used to joke about having a "yea!" button when we came across a particularly well designed feature or small UI touch (particularly on older Macintosh software.)

I guess its a glass is half ( empty | full | full of something noxious ) thing.

(Now that I'm older and more cynical, I tend towards the latter.)

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

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Post by alexcroox »

simonswords82 wrote: post #29
selectnull wrote: post #8

Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun. On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.

I don't think the message is at all demeaning. It's a bit tongue in cheek/British sense of humour, definitely not a put down.

Thank you, not sure where all this projecting is coming from
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