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Isn't this a dark pattern though?
by divanvisagie 10y ago
Isn't this a dark pattern though?
- r3bl 10y agoNo, it's not. It says "pay what you want" and you can literally pay what you want (including nothing).
- serf 10y agoWell, I think it is. If I pay nothing, I don't pay. I don't say "I paid zero." or "I paid nothing" unless someone asks the specific question "How much did you pay for that?" It's obviously a way to nudge people into paying something. edit: I made an aside about the use of the word 'donation' by cannabis collectives in the U.S. to denote 'payment' (as a way to operate as non-profits and avoid federal problems) as a reference to similarly weak wording used in a nefarious way, but I thought the relationship to the pattern here was weak, so I removed it.