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I especially love the pop-up modal asking me "Is Trump unfit to be President?" on that site. There's only a single button (I Agree), and clicking the X in the

I especially love the pop-up modal asking me "Is Trump unfit to be President?" on that site. There's only a single button (I Agree), and clicking the X in the corner to close the modal causes the button to be pushed at the same time. For someone as "experienced" as Clinton, her campaign is astoundingly incompetent.

conanbatt 10y ago
I clicked the link, saw that popup and had to share that abomination. What the hell.
jungletek 10y ago
You say incompetent, I say intentional. It's an inverse Hanlon's Razor situation.
- cloakandswagger 10y ago
  The whole point of click-bait ads with fake vote buttons is to entice people with the perception of choice. Only giving me one option offends my sensibilities, even if I belong to that person's camp. I can't think of a person on earth who enjoys having their autonomy removed. So at best you've pissed off the people who support you, and at worst you've reinforced the other camp's argument that you're an authoritarian control-freak.
eli 10y ago
Trump just blasted out a fundraiser text message with a broken link. Hard to find good tech people I guess.
PostOnce 10y ago
Literally the first thing you see visiting her site is an attack that you are forced to join in on, rather than talk of what she's going to do for the country. "Guy B is bad, elect me." is not as strong an argument as "I can and will do X to improve Y, guy B can't." And you still get to attack in B! How can I in good conscience vote either party? I would be infinitely amused if everyone without talking about it voted for a third party out of spite and it was a total shock the day after. "Green party, bafflingly, wins election", or whatever.
- colejohnson66 10y ago
  The problem with third parties is that it is, somehow, a vote for Trump[0] and Hillary[1]. Then there's the "lesser of two evils" fallacy[2] some Hillary supporters use. It's actually sad how people think there's no escape from the two party system. [0]: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/if_you_vote_third_party_you_re_voting_for_capt_donald_trump.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201... [1]: http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/08/11/nevertrump-youre-not-voting-trump-youre-voting-hillary/ http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/08/11/nevertrump-yo... [2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_of_two_evils_principle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_of_two_evils_principl...
  - adamrezich 10y ago
    We don't have a two-party system. The DNC and GOP just want us to believe that we do. The more we keep believing that we do, the more this same crap will keep happening every four to eight years.
  - PostOnce 10y ago
    It's not, though. If you dislike both of them equally, and it doesn't matter to you who wins, and you vote a third party, the difference to you is the same... you just have less on your conscience now because you didn't contribute to a particular side -- and there's the slight, lotto-winning-odds chance that everyone else quietly did the same thing... What the hell, I'll give it a shot.
  - SerLava 10y ago
    Yeah and when a lot of people vote third party, it pulls a lot of politicians toward the views held by the unelected third party.
tomjakubowski 10y ago
> There's only a single button (I Agree), and clicking the X in the corner to close the modal causes the button to be pushed at the same time. Huh? No it doesn't. It just closes the modal. Pressing the button does a different thing. Try it out in a fresh Incognito window, or equivalent.

conanbatt 10y ago

I clicked the link, saw that popup and had to share that abomination. What the hell.

jungletek 10y ago

You say incompetent, I say intentional. It's an inverse Hanlon's Razor situation.

cloakandswagger 10y ago
The whole point of click-bait ads with fake vote buttons is to entice people with the perception of choice. Only giving me one option offends my sensibilities, even if I belong to that person's camp. I can't think of a person on earth who enjoys having their autonomy removed. So at best you've pissed off the people who support you, and at worst you've reinforced the other camp's argument that you're an authoritarian control-freak.

eli 10y ago

Trump just blasted out a fundraiser text message with a broken link. Hard to find good tech people I guess.

PostOnce 10y ago

Literally the first thing you see visiting her site is an attack that you are forced to join in on, rather than talk of what she's going to do for the country. "Guy B is bad, elect me." is not as strong an argument as "I can and will do X to improve Y, guy B can't." And you still get to attack in B! How can I in good conscience vote either party? I would be infinitely amused if everyone without talking about it voted for a third party out of spite and it was a total shock the day after. "Green party, bafflingly, wins election", or whatever.

colejohnson66 10y ago
The problem with third parties is that it is, somehow, a vote for Trump[0] and Hillary[1]. Then there's the "lesser of two evils" fallacy[2] some Hillary supporters use. It's actually sad how people think there's no escape from the two party system. [0]: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/08/if_you_vote_third_party_you_re_voting_for_capt_donald_trump.html http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201... [1]: http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/08/11/nevertrump-youre-not-voting-trump-youre-voting-hillary/ http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/08/11/nevertrump-yo... [2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_of_two_evils_principle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser_of_two_evils_principl...
- adamrezich 10y ago
  We don't have a two-party system. The DNC and GOP just want us to believe that we do. The more we keep believing that we do, the more this same crap will keep happening every four to eight years.
- PostOnce 10y ago
  It's not, though. If you dislike both of them equally, and it doesn't matter to you who wins, and you vote a third party, the difference to you is the same... you just have less on your conscience now because you didn't contribute to a particular side -- and there's the slight, lotto-winning-odds chance that everyone else quietly did the same thing... What the hell, I'll give it a shot.
- SerLava 10y ago
  Yeah and when a lot of people vote third party, it pulls a lot of politicians toward the views held by the unelected third party.

tomjakubowski 10y ago

> There's only a single button (I Agree), and clicking the X in the corner to close the modal causes the button to be pushed at the same time. Huh? No it doesn't. It just closes the modal. Pressing the button does a different thing. Try it out in a fresh Incognito window, or equivalent.