Ron Clarke wrote:
>
> > Someone suggested a hotkey to send a form complaint to the current URL.
> > Sounds good to me !
>
> Now that sounds like something we can ALL use. How about it, gurus ?
> A hot key, and/or ikon on the Utilities page generating a "mailto" form
> in Insight, with a pre-loaded COMPLAINT.TXT, for editing out the non-
> relevent complaint lines ?
>
> I'd like to see that ! It will get a lot of use from me. :)
> But I suggest it will have to be an unofficial customisation - there will
> inevitably be some return fire, and it should not be directed at Michael
> or Bernie.
Hi Ron;
Well, I went ahead and made that thingy and now I'm having second thoughts.<G>
Perhaps we should have a graded complaint system. Some websites are so bad
they drive you nuts going around in circles or take ridiculous positions
that make you want to just plain puke.
Others are simply the result of ill-informed webmasters or page designers who
made some bad choices. Like my own pages, for instance, designed for a special
target market by someone that knows bu**er all about HTML rules.<g>
.
So, there is a whole spectrum to complain about.
Maybe my current form complaint is polite enough and general enough to suit
the last group, where there is at least some hope of making a difference.
But we should also have a more terse, and possibly a bit nastier version for
those hopeless sites - where you are ABSOLUTELY SURE they don't give a damn
about what you think, where you KNOW they are not going to change based on
ANYTHING you say, but just possibly they might respond to some negative
publicity.
For those sites, I suggest you CC your (printable) complaint to BOTH:
http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com/
http://www.webtomorrow.com/badsites.htm
I am now modifying my complaint system to two levels, fired by F9 and F10.
The modified version should be available later tonite, EST. <G>
- Clarence Verge
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