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Fun fact: this is a common technique when dealing with children. > No, you can't leave the table until you eat your vegetables. > No, you can't go play until
by tylerag 4y ago
Fun fact: this is a common technique when dealing with children.
> No, you can't leave the table until you eat your vegetables.
> No, you can't go play until your chores are done.
- josephcsible 4y agoWhich is a reason why I don't like it here: they're infantilizing the adults who use their products.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoWhen some of your users are kids and some are adults, it seems like a situation where there really is no happy medium that will make everyone happy. Kind of tricky to deal with users who have diametrically opposed goals. It's interesting how strongly people feel about a basic little game. (full disclosure, I work at Google but I've never had to deal with upset teachers and upset children arguing in bugs assigned to me)
- astrange 4y agoPresenting policies as facts of life (like Meta also does) is usually done to keep the abuse teams away from those angry customers and so they don’t have to reveal their anti-spam techniques. Security by obscurity does work for a while. There are ways to get companies to actually pay attention to you; a good place to start is sending registered mail to an executive in a way that looks like you might be a lawyer. patio11 has more advice on this.
- watwut 4y agoI think this is more of the case of not turning on playstation or tv while they do homework. The ticket is literally about distraction - the kid intends to do work, the game is literally placed in the middle and the kid forgets what was original goal. 100% normal for kids and I would not blamed neither them nor teachers.