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Came here and noticed that ~70% of the comments were about, or replies to comments about, the imperial measurements. Just goes to show how you can so quickly a
by jackvalentine 12y ago
Came here and noticed that ~70% of the comments were about, or replies to comments about, the imperial measurements.
Just goes to show how you can so quickly alienate your audience and derail any conversation if you don't localise the product (or in this case, de-localise).
- rplnt 12y agoWhat it shows is that most of the US population is sleeping right now. Those comments would most likely be down-voted.
- koyote 12y agoWhy would it be downvoted? I think this is akin to posting a link to a page in a language that is not English. Surely there would be many comments reflecting the users' annoyance of having to use Google translate to read the page; no matter 'who' is sleeping or awake. That being said, a single upvoted comment on the matter should be enough to make the OP aware.
- rplnt 12y agoThat's the general trend I noticed on reddit. Comments about imperial/metric units are either upvoted or downvoted depending on the time (sometimes topic). Maybe HN isn't as bad. And I have to agree that one post would be enough (and comments about using search engines are not necessary).
- Houshalter 12y agoBecause there are dozens comments saying the same thing, and many of them are sort of rude.
- lnanek2 12y agoI'm US, and voted the complaints up because I found them both funny and useful - pointing out a flaw that makes it tougher to use for many people.
- jackvalentine 12y agoI don't think that your point and my point are mutually exclusive.
- collyw 12y agoWe are on a site full of pedantic programmers.