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It's neat that you figured this out but it also "irks" me a little that you showed users how to go around their system to unlock this "beta feature" before it w
by bluetidepro 14y ago
It's neat that you figured this out but it also "irks" me a little that you showed users how to go around their system to unlock this "beta feature" before it was released. What if they were doing some A/B testing and now, by revealing how to get around this, you may skew there data or results. I realize that if it was super sensitive A/B or beta testing they could easily change it on their end to make it not able to "get around", but again, it just slightly "irks" me. Haha
- vmind 14y ago<offtopic> The correct spelling is 'irk'. </offtopic>
- bluetidepro 14y agofixed - Cheers! ;) Haha
- atopiler 14y agoThanks for the comment. I totally hear you - it irked me a bit too at first, but ultimately I thought to myself - the feature was out in their production environment already, and the chances of this really actually having any effect on Pinterest were pretty slim to none. If I'm wrong, then perhaps they have bigger problems. Think about how much more valuable this test data would be though.. if you have people using this heavily despite the fact that they have to go through this whole process every time they want to block someone, I think that would say a lot about how important and needed this feature really is. For what's probably a really small percentage of the Pinterest user base that actually has the patience and skill to use it, they probably really need this feature. Otherwise, I expect most people to pretty much just say, "Oh, cool", and let it be a neat "easter-egg" type of thing. Anyway, I totally get where you're coming from, and agree with you that it's probably not that big of a deal :)