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Honestly this is worse than a "design issue" of the button styles or "people not reading" here. "Register to collect endorsements" does not explicitly say whos
by remram 3y ago
Honestly this is worse than a "design issue" of the button styles or "people not reading" here.
"Register to collect endorsements" does not explicitly say whose endorsements. It is possible to read this sentence as a (slightly odd) way to say "Register to have your endorsements collected".
"Collect" is a rather ambiguous verb, if I saw a button on a different website saying "register to collect favorites", I would understand that the website is building the collection, from my clicking on items... not that others will fav my profile.
"Register as a candidate to collect endorsements" would have been much clearer, whether the visitor read the preceding block of text or not.
- golergka 3y agoI assumed the page was in Icelandic and the author translated the UI for his english-speaking audience?...
- luplex 3y agoNope, there definitely is an english-language version, at least of the site that's live now. https://island.is/en/presidential-election-candidates https://island.is/en/presidential-election-candidates
- arnorhs 3y agoOr simply: "become a president"
- titanomachy 3y agoI think Amazon has a patent on "becoming a president in one click", you might have to pay them some royalties.
- seabass-labrax 3y agoI was going to point out that Amazon is American, and thus would have been unlikely to file in Iceland. Unfortunately, however, Iceland is a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty, so it is probable that an patent that Amazon holds in the USA would have also been granted in Iceland. P.S. Iceland the country, not the retailer, in case that's not clear in this context ;)