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I think that pretty much everywhere green==positive and red==negative.

by daveid 12y ago

kens 12y ago
Since I'm sitting here with a voltmeter next to me, I'll point out that red==positive and black==negative. The bigger point I'd like to make is that any talk of universal connotations of colors is probably wrong unless you've really studied it carefully. For some history on why red means stop and green means go, see Straight Dope: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/437/who-decided-red-means-stop-and-green-means-go http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/437/who-decided-red... Apparently it dates back to early railroads, where red meant stop, green meant caution, and white meant go. They discovered this wasn't failsafe when the red filter fell out, the train saw a white light and crashed. So they moved to green for go.
- Flenser 12y ago
  Although red was chosen in the case of electricity to signify danger, so it still has a "negative" connotation in terms of touching it.
sitkack 12y ago
Have you been everywhere? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_in_Chinese_culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_in_Chinese_culture
thaumasiotes 12y ago
Not even close; red is positive across large swathes of the world. There's a reason the USSR flag was solid red.
- rmc 12y ago
  Socialism?
  - thaumasiotes 12y ago
    ...no? As in China, they adopted red because of its preexisting immense popularity (well, for the USSR it seems they also drew on some "revolution is red" symbolism). Your causation is running backwards. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union : > The colour red has always been a positive symbol in the Russian culture. The word red (Russian: красный, krasnyy) is etymologically related with the Russian word for beautiful. This can also be seen in Moscow’s Red Square and the Russian Orthodox festivity, Red Easter.
    - rmc 12y ago
      Well. TIL. I thought it was the socialist flag.
freshhawk 12y ago
Well, in western culture yes, definitely. But the whole point is that code removal shouldn't be associated with being negative and so shouldn't be coloured red.

I think that pretty much everywhere green==positive and red==negative.

by daveid 12y ago

I think that pretty much everywhere green==positive and red==negative.

kens 12y ago

Since I'm sitting here with a voltmeter next to me, I'll point out that red==positive and black==negative. The bigger point I'd like to make is that any talk of universal connotations of colors is probably wrong unless you've really studied it carefully. For some history on why red means stop and green means go, see Straight Dope: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/437/who-decided-red-means-stop-and-green-means-go http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/437/who-decided-red... Apparently it dates back to early railroads, where red meant stop, green meant caution, and white meant go. They discovered this wasn't failsafe when the red filter fell out, the train saw a white light and crashed. So they moved to green for go.

Flenser 12y ago
Although red was chosen in the case of electricity to signify danger, so it still has a "negative" connotation in terms of touching it.

sitkack 12y ago

Have you been everywhere? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_in_Chinese_culture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_in_Chinese_culture

thaumasiotes 12y ago

Not even close; red is positive across large swathes of the world. There's a reason the USSR flag was solid red.

rmc 12y ago
Socialism?
- thaumasiotes 12y ago
  ...no? As in China, they adopted red because of its preexisting immense popularity (well, for the USSR it seems they also drew on some "revolution is red" symbolism). Your causation is running backwards. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_Soviet_Union : > The colour red has always been a positive symbol in the Russian culture. The word red (Russian: красный, krasnyy) is etymologically related with the Russian word for beautiful. This can also be seen in Moscow’s Red Square and the Russian Orthodox festivity, Red Easter.
  - rmc 12y ago
    Well. TIL. I thought it was the socialist flag.

freshhawk 12y ago

Well, in western culture yes, definitely. But the whole point is that code removal shouldn't be associated with being negative and so shouldn't be coloured red.