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Maybe some webmaster education to teach people that popping up a dialog begging for Facebook follows or email addresses is generally considered a hardcore dick
by culot 9y ago
Maybe some webmaster education to teach people that popping up a dialog begging for Facebook follows or email addresses is generally considered a hardcore dick move? Seriously, who decides to employ those dialogs? A newsletter signup is best embedded in the page itself, as is any social follow ads. To shove them in my face is always rude, and usually means not only am I not going to sign up for your newsletter, but I'm to close out of your page altogether. You lose, go home [and fix your jerky web design].
- gboudrias 9y agoIt's not like most people had education specifically for this. The truth of the matter is most of us are winging it big time. Hence the wild west improvisation.
- bhauer 9y ago> a dialog begging for Facebook follows Or that monstrous dialog Facebook has on its pages asking its visitors to join Facebook. Annoying on desktop, supremely annoying on mobile. Just another reason I usually don't bother clicking on Facebook links.
- zitterbewegung 9y agoI bet it gets enough leads and or sales so that even though it annoys a bunch of users that it is worth it. If it had no conversions they would have stopped doing it by now. Arguing that etiquette should be observed when you have a lead / sales generation flow doesn't work.
- JoshTriplett 9y ago> Arguing that etiquette should be observed when you have a lead / sales generation flow doesn't work. Depends on which customers you want.
- oblio 9y ago> Maybe some webmaster education to teach people that popping up a dialog begging for Facebook follows or email addresses is generally considered a hardcore dick move? That doesn't work. Before Bayesian filtering and Gmail, 90% of my mail was spam. The people who did it knew that it was wrong, they just didn't care. $$$ > almost anything.
- petee 9y agoImho the difference is that spam emails are a captive audience; keep sending them, eventually you get a hit. And you can send new ones to the same person repeatedly. But irritating popups will ensure many will never come back - you've forever lost your opportunity to even attempt to sell me something. Seems so illogical
- oblio 9y agoYou're assuming that regular people care that much about them. When you have users with an Internet Explorer not that far from this one: https://i.stack.imgur.com/82hWm.jpg https://i.stack.imgur.com/82hWm.jpg, do you really think that several popups phase the regular users? :)
- iratewizard 9y agoInternet explorer with a million toolbars seems to have been replaced with the much cleaner tablet-as-a-Facebook-machine and a million freemium apps.
- vorpalhex 9y ago"Steve needs your help in farmville!"
- jopsen 9y agoTrue, but mostly I end up those sites because google sends me there. When browsers and search engines fights back against crappy web content I suspect we'll see change.
- wang_li 9y agoBrowsers need a button so the user can categorize a page/site as dickish. In the future, visits to the site will cause the browser to stop with a reminder, similar to the "this page is insecure" dialog, giving the user the option to click through or go back.
- kolpa 9y agoDo you think those popups are created just to piss you off, or because they are profitable?
- wtetzner 9y agoOr maybe because someone thinks they're profitable.
- toxican 9y ago"Seriously, who decides to employ those dialogs?" Usually some out of touch marketing, SEO, advertising, etc. person. Most web developers aren't the decision makers in situations like this.
- Turqueso 9y agoI've tried to explain this the my client but they don't care. IF they see conversion from it, they'll keep using it.