On 08/11/2007, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com wrote:
Most our users are zombies. They don't read the messages, they don't mind that you wrote IT WILL BE DELETED on size 120pt on the previous page. They just go on. As such, we pay them with their same money. We put a generic text notifying them. They ignore it and the image gets deleted on a week. Really impersonal. You can't think on the real life on a person putting images on the wif there's someone in front of them shouting not to. You would expect them to listen and talk. On the other hand, on the real life he could get angry when you remove all his polemon uploads when he has gone some steps away.
So, this is interesting. I notice this too. But which came first: the templates that turn people into zombies, or the zombie users that deserve nothing more than a template?
So... what can we do that forces(?)/encourages people to engage as human beings, rather than act like zombies?
Is it partly language difference? (even though all the warnings have the links on them...) Is it an attitude like "commons isn't my project so I'm not invested in it, whenever I get a template warning it's THEM being jerks"? (emphasise us vs them)
Regarding the web chat idea Greg had, could something like that work on the toolserver?
cheers, Brianna