"Steven Schveighoffer" <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:op.v6hw8cs5eav7ka@localhost.localdomain... > > relax, Nick :) Read my implicitly tongue in cheek reply again. I'll > stress *Netscape Navigator*. And I think all the "upgrade your browser" > replies were TIC. >
I misread the netscape reference as sarcasm. Today's not a good day for me in general, for unrelated reasons. >> Fuck, how dare I have *any* problem with anything that's popular. Imagine >> the *nerve* of that asshole Nick who stubburnly *refuses* to be thrilled >> with twitter!! After all it's new and popular! Let's stone that goddamn >> old-fasionioned motherfucker for not being the good little corporate >> trend-whore he's expected to be!! > > I have nothing against your personal opinion, you are certainly allowed to > express it (and I'm more amused than shocked at your vile hatred towards > everything trendy :). It's not so much "everything trendy" that I have a problem with as: - Blind embracement of trends. - Ostracization and/or contempt towards anyone/anything that fails to blindly embrace all trends. - Certain specific trends. > But shunning popular avenues of social networking is not the way to > spread the word about D. If D wants a twit feed and a link to it or whatever, then whatever. I just don't think prominent corporate branding is appropriate on the frontpage unless it's something directly connected (Digital Mars would be appropriate, for example). Any other complaints I have about social networking or whatever else aren't really about spreading word of D anyway, but rather spreading word of sensible software design. > You would not make a good marketing director :) > Indeed. I would insist on giving potential users credit for basic intelligence rather then treating them like, and catering exclusively to, sheep. But doing so would limit me to a very small niche market. :/ I do get what you're saying though. I normally compare it to salesmanship instead: I'd make a terrible commission-based salesman, a fact I take pride in.