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Arguing names is the boringest kind of disagreement, unless the name is misleading.
by plonh 11y ago
Arguing names is the boringest kind of disagreement, unless the name is misleading.
- jasode 11y agoI'm not arguing names. I'm a live-&-let-live descriptivist when it comes to language usage by the masses. E.g. I have no problem with most people calling RC helicopters "drones", etc. In this case, I'm pointing out that "dark patterns" already has a rich accumulation of psychological tricks on web transactions. Thaler can build on top of that shared knowledge. For example, people can go to darkpatterns.org and then click on "Browse Library" and learn many more variations of what Thaler is discussing. If a reader is only exposed to the phrase "bad nudge", he/she knows less instead of more. Do people want to eventually converge on "bad nudges" instead of "dark patterns"? I don't care. But at the moment, "dark patterns" is the phrase that has attracted the bulk of discussion. (E.g. see previous cited google search links and HN itself[1]) [1]https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dark%20patterns&sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&dateRange=all https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dark%20patterns&sort=byPopular...