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It's a dark pattern
by tantalor 1y ago
It's a dark pattern
- jstummbillig 1y agoI am missing a victim
- lemonberry 1y agoThey're everywhere these days.
- arduanika 1y agoTruth
- School-Cotton 1y agoDeceiving someone and breaking their trust already counts as victimizing them, inherently, even if they suffer no other harm.
- recursive 1y agoIf I see it and get misled, I am the victim.
- pessimizer 1y agoNo, it's just the kind of dishonesty that people who create dark patterns start with. It's meant to give the believable impression that something that is not happening is happening, to people hopefully too ignorant to investigate. Of course, in the tech industry, you can safely assume that anyone can detect your scam would happily be complicit in your scam. They wouldn't be employed otherwise. ----- edit: the funniest part about this little inconsequential subdebate is that this is exactly the same as making a computer program a chirpy ass-kissing sycophant. It isn't the algorithms that are kissing your ass, it's the people who are marketing them that want to make you feel a friendship and loyalty that is nonexistent. "Who's the victim?"
- zeroxfe 1y agojeez, this is a fun website, can't believe how quickly we're godwining here!
- jamesnorden 1y agoThis has to be the most over/misused term in this whole website.
- y-curious 1y agoYou're absolutely right!
- stuartjohnson12 1y agoYou're absolutely right!
- diggan 1y agoMaybe I'm old or just wrong, but "dark pattern" for me means "intentionally misleading" which doesn't seem to be the case here, this is more of a "add liveliness so users can see it's not static data" with no intention of misleading, since it seems to be true that the data is actually dynamic.
- zestyping 1y agoIt is indeed misleading. It is showing an untruthful value, and an untruthful change in value, on purpose. A small lie, perhaps—but nonetheless a lie.
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoI wouldn't go so far as to call this specific implementation a dark pattern, but it is misleading. It suggests the data updated right when I loaded the page, which obviously isn't true as I can see the same 16->17 transition on a refresh. I'd prefer a "Data last updated at <timestamp>" indicator somewhere. Now I know it's live data and I know how old the data is. Is it as cute / friendly / fun? Probably not. But it's definitely more precise and less misleading.
- stronglikedan 1y agothe way the website has it implemented is better
- sjsdaiuasgdia 1y agoThat's your opinion. Mine differs.
- boredtofears 1y agoOn that note, the font isn't symmetrical and the bar graph itself uses jagged lines. This makes it hard to read and much less precise. I'd prefer all websites in monospaced fonts with only the straightest of lines.
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- coldtea 1y agoNope.
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- the_af 1y ago> It's a dark pattern No, a dark pattern is intentionally deceptive design meant to trick users into doing something (or prevent them from doing something else) they otherwise wouldn't. Examples: being misleading about confirmation/cancel buttons, hiding options to make them less pickable, being misleading about wording/options to make users buy something they otherwise wouldn't, being misleading about privacy, intentionally making opt in/out options confusing, etc. None of it is the case here.