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Good thing the target demo isn't pedantic internet nerds.
by bbddg 8y ago
Good thing the target demo isn't pedantic internet nerds.
- andrepd 8y agoIt's a shame you're on a website whose target demo is pedantic internet nerds then :^)
- Someone1234 8y agoPretty sure the target demographic is people, and people find distracting away from the page's core content with pop-ups universally annoying.
- jchw 8y agoGood thing normal people love being irritated by senseless popups.
- toss1 8y agoI also found the popups annoying enough that I just closed the tab. I do not think that it is influenced a bit by one's score on scales of pedantry, internet-familiarity, or nerd-ism. It's more like people want to get to the information the web designer is presenting, and the designer is sticking all these obstacles in the way. Many people will simply say "Nevermind" at the obstacles. Yet there will be a few who persist and give their info for whatever reason. Since there are very large numbers, the marketing people who insisted in putting up the obstacles will cheer "look how much customer data we got!". What they won't notice (if they even kept the data), is how many people they lost by simply clicking away. Marketing people seem to have an endless capacity to mistake forcing behaviors that annoy their subjects for creating 'engagement'. And CEOs mistake these CMOs as doing a good job.
- sho 8y agoIronically, in telling you that you don't have a clue what "pedantic" means, I'm being slightly pedantic.