On Tuesday, August 28, 2012 6:31:08 PM UTC+1, Pantsburgh wrote: > In my opinion part of this comes down to usability and intent. When I want to > talk to someone privately I will send them an email or a text message or > *gasp* call them. When I want to share things with my friends and family I go > to Facebook. To me (and I think to most users) the private message system is > really just minimum functionality - just like whatever the private tweets on > Twitter are called, or the private message system on just about any internet > forum software. With this in mind, it would actually not make sense to me if > the buttons were the same size. > > > Additionally, I do think this falls a bit outside the scope of reviewing ToS > and PPs. It's good to keep companies honest on what they say in the terms, > but I don't think this violates any of that. > > On Thursday, June 7, 2012 7:24:05 AM UTC-6, Michiel de Jong wrote:On > Facebook, the 'post on wall' button is much bigger than the 'send > > private message' button. That leads to oversharing, and is not in the > > user's interest. > > > > otoh, they did make this change: > > http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/facebook-updates-ui-to-address-accidental-over-sharing/
Sorry to drag up a very old thread, but this question of ToS / UI rating is interesting to me. I think ToSDR should stay focused on ToS and privacy policies only. There could be other services which rate a user interface for how devious / manipulative / incompetently designed it is. In fact, there is a website which already attempts to do this: http://darkpatterns.org/ Similar to ToSDR, it attempts to catalogue (partly through crowd-sourcing) all the examples of user interfaces which are designed to trick the user to doing something they don't want to do. These are two seperate services requiring different considerations. However, I can see MUCH value in say, a browser plugin which would aggregate both a website's score from ToSDR and darkpatterns into one informative overall rating, or combine an explanation of the worst policy terms and the worst aspects of the user interface into one concise warning that pops up when I visit the website. -- tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
