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  • pinchvalve

    Aug. 26, 2009 2:51 p.m. pinchvalve UltraDork

    It was announced today that web designers and administrators can now face the death penalty for committing certain sins. For instance, if you force me to fill out a form to contact you instead of just giving me an e-mail address, you could be killed. Or, if after I fill out said form, you decide you don't like how I formatted my phone number and you delete everything I spent an hour typing and tell me to do it again, BAM!, straight to the electric chair.

    They are rapidly expanding the list of punishable offenses, adding common sins like flash intros that you cannot skip, having Palau in your state list, and allowing Netflix anywhere near your code. If you have any more to add, list them here and i will make sure they get passed along to the proper, completely imaginary, web supreme court and enforcement division.

  • Josh

    Aug. 26, 2009 2:55 p.m. Josh HalfDork

    Requiring registration/login to view a news article on a non-pay site, or requiring registration to search a public web forum when I only wanted to look for the answer to one question and never go there again.

  • neon4891

    Aug. 26, 2009 3:00 p.m. neon4891 UltraDork

    Posting canoes

  • alfadriver

    Aug. 26, 2009 3:04 p.m. alfadriver HalfDork

    pinchvalve wrote:

    It was announced today that web designers and administrators can now face the death penalty for committing certain sins. For instance, if you force me to fill out a form to contact you instead of just giving me an e-mail address, you could be killed.

    Just out of curiosity, have you tried to directly contact any of the GRM staff? Last time I tried, it was a form, not a direct e-mail.

    By this rule, GRM would be dead....

  • Keith

    Aug. 26, 2009 3:10 p.m. Keith PowerDork

    Not all of them, just Tim.

  • alex

    Aug. 26, 2009 3:15 p.m. alex HalfDork

    Drop down menus for states. If you don't know how to abbreviate your state properly, get off my internet, please.

  • alex

    Aug. 26, 2009 3:16 p.m. alex HalfDork

    Josh wrote:

    Requiring registration/login to view a news article on a non-pay site, or requiring registration to search a public web forum when I only wanted to look for the answer to one question and never go there again.

    +1. Same for the board software that requires login to view pictures.

  • Tom Heath

    Aug. 26, 2009 3:17 p.m. Tom Heath Marketing / Club Coordinator

    alfadriver wrote:

    pinchvalve wrote:

    It was announced today that web designers and administrators can now face the death penalty for committing certain sins. For instance, if you force me to fill out a form to contact you instead of just giving me an e-mail address, you could be killed.

    Just out of curiosity, have you tried to directly contact any of the GRM staff? Last time I tried, it was a form, not a direct e-mail.

    By this rule, GRM would be dead....

    Not quite. We have our direct email addresses listed on the masthead of every issue, and most of us have a real live profile for the site with contact info as well.

    There is a form on the homepage, but it feeds directly to one of our individual emails also. It's more for people that don't know who they're looking for.

    Although since it's only Baxter at stake in this example...

  • Tim Baxter

    Aug. 26, 2009 3:25 p.m. Tim Baxter Online Editor

    Actually, there's a VERY good reason to use a contact form for emails:

    It keeps your email (and mine) out of the hands of dirty no-good spammers who want to harvest your email address for evil. An awful lot of effort went into protecting every user's email address on our sites.

    That said, all properly designed forms should be very accepting of what they accept and very strict about what they pass along (to the database, to a user, whatever). That's a pretty basic tenet of good form design, and it's probably doubly true for a contact form, which is so often used by somebody who's already having a problem and really doesn't need another one.

    I agree with most all of the other sins mentioned, and have quite a few of my own.

  • Rusnak_322

    Aug. 26, 2009 3:30 p.m. Rusnak_322 Reader

    alex wrote:

    Drop down menus for states. If you don't know how to abbreviate your state properly, get off my internet, please.

    How about country drop boxes where USA is not the first choice, but the 72nd (extra annoying for a company website that only sells to the US and Canada).

  • Aug. 26, 2009 3:44 p.m. captain_napalm Reader

    Being a dirty no-good spammer should be punishable by death.

  • akamcfly

    Aug. 26, 2009 4:07 p.m. akamcfly New Reader

    alex wrote:

    +1. Same for the board software that requires login to view pictures.

    +1

    I really hate that

  • Josh

    Aug. 26, 2009 5:05 p.m. Josh HalfDork

    alex wrote:

    +1. Same for the board software that requires login to view pictures.

    That drives me nuts even on sites I am active on, with Bimmerforums if I am reading a thread on my phone it never stays logged in, and when I log in to see the pics it dumps me back to the main page and I have to root around to find the thread again (while hoping it doesn't log me back out again). Ugh.

  • Appleseed

    Aug. 26, 2009 5:16 p.m. Appleseed HalfDork

    Maybe not web site sins, but internet sin, none the less.

    TYPING EVERYTHING IN CAPS, REGARDLESS IF YOU'RE SHOUTING OR NOT.

    or never using caps at all. that one always makes a fun read. so you need help building a car, but you can't build a sentence?

    Or text speak. u r getn on my nervz wth that.

    Instant death.

  • NYG95GA

    Aug. 26, 2009 5:27 p.m. NYG95GA SuperDork

    Having trouble with spam?

    Go to your address book, and put in this address:

    aaaaaa@aaaaaaa.aol.(dot) com (or whatever IPS you use)

    It worked for me. When a hacker tries to access your address book, they'll never get past that into the real addys.

  • jharbert

    Aug. 26, 2009 6:25 p.m. jharbert New Reader

    Poor vocabulary. I was taught to use the word "you're" in place of "you are" in the third grade. Saying "Your right" should at least lead to being banned from the internet. And don't get me started on "definately".... (Pro tip: There is no A in "definitely.")

  • David S. Wallens

    Aug. 26, 2009 7:02 p.m. David S. Wallens Editorial Director

    Rusnak_322 wrote:

    alex wrote:

    Drop down menus for states. If you don't know how to abbreviate your state properly, get off my internet, please.

    How about country drop boxes where USA is not the first choice, but the 72nd (extra annoying for a company website that only sells to the US and Canada).

    That one bugs me, too. Glad to see that I'm not alone.

  • confuZion3

    Aug. 26, 2009 7:09 p.m. confuZion3 SuperDork

    I hate getting e-mail at work from people who can't speak English. I got one today with the entire berkeleying message in the subject heading. I got another like this:

    Subject: FW ...hI Mary... (the fake name of a person in our leasing department who forwarded the message to me)

    Body: i Didn't Get Paid On This Yet...

    In addition to the completely retarded capitalization, he was talking about an invoice for an apartment rental that happened 11 days ago. And he knows that we don't pay until 30 days. shiny happy person. He sounded like a idiot.

  • Josh

    Aug. 26, 2009 7:27 p.m. Josh HalfDork

    jharbert wrote:

    Poor vocabulary. I was taught to use the word "you're" in place of "you are" in the third grade. Saying "Your right" should at least lead to being banned from the internet. And don't get me started on "definately".... (Pro tip: There is no A in "definitely.")

    Thanks to the near-ubiquity of spell check, "defiantly" outpaces "definately" by at least two to one these days as a botched form of "definitely".

  • wlkelley3

    Aug. 26, 2009 7:32 p.m. wlkelley3 HalfDork

    +1 on the text speak. I must be an old fart because I don't understand a lot of the abbreviations. Poor vocabulary is on the list also but not as high. Just wish people would learn the proper definetion of a word. ie: break vs brake. 2 different things to me. Mis-spellings I can take as long as it's close enough to understand the attempt since sometimes I can't spell either.

    News sites - the free ones that have video only of an article. Some of us read it at work and the audio from a video is a no-no at work. So please if you have a video news article at least include a short text covering the high points.

  • jharbert

    Aug. 26, 2009 7:52 p.m. jharbert New Reader

    Josh wrote:

    Thanks to the near-ubiquity of spell check, "defiantly" outpaces "definately" by at least two to one these days as a botched form of "definitely".

    Anyone that so completely botches 'definitely' that they end up with 'defiantly' definitely deserves death.

  • mad_machine

    Aug. 27, 2009 1:23 a.m. mad_machine UberDork

    I really hate the websites that ask me to submit my email twice to double check it. I usually cut and Paste

  • Jay

    Aug. 27, 2009 2:40 a.m. Jay Dork

    Rusnak_322 wrote:

    alex wrote:

    Drop down menus for states. If you don't know how to abbreviate your state properly, get off my internet, please.

    How about country drop boxes where USA is not the first choice, but the 72nd (extra annoying for a company website that only sells to the US and Canada).

    This is especially annoying if you're filling out an international order form and the drop box forces you to pick a U.S. state. You guys would be surprised how common that is...

    I usually pick Delaware as it matches the ISO domain code for Germany. But it still makes for a strange looking adress on the shipping tag.

    Hell, just give me a text field to enter my full adress. It's so much easier that way...

  • Grtechguy

    Aug. 27, 2009 6:27 a.m. Grtechguy UltraDork

    Keith wrote:

    Not all of them, just Tim.

    and most of us have his direct email address anyway

  • 4cylndrfury

    Aug. 27, 2009 7:25 a.m. 4cylndrfury Dork

    +1 ON THE ALL CAPS ONE BUT I ALSO HATE RUN ON SENTENCES THAT USE ALMOST NO PUNCTUATION AT ALL I MEAN IF YOURE GOING TO RUN ON AND ON AND ON ABOUT THE CAMRY WITH 170K AND AUTOMATIC TRANS AND AIR THATS SORTA COLD FOR ABOUT $100 LESS THAN I CAN GET FROM THE USED CAR PLACE THAT WILL AT LEAST GIVE ME A 90 DAY WARRANTY SO YOURE CLIST AD IS RETARDED THEN THE LEASE YOU COULD DO WAS PUNCTUATE YOURE RETARDED INBRED LISTING BUT YOU DIDNT SO NOW UNFORTUNATELY YOUR KIDS WILL BE FATHERLESS AND YOUR WIFE WILL HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO YOUR INBRED KIDS THAT THEIR DAD DIED TRYING TO SELL HIS NEGATIVE EQUITY APPLIANCE VEHICLE AND WAS PUNISHED BY BEHEADING FOR BEING A NEWB

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