Code: /mobile/post.bml.post.success.header

[chasy]

^-- This was changed from "Success!" to "Success". Is there a particular reason why? "Success!" seems more exciting and solid to me...but it's pretty much a non-issue, either way. I'm just asking cos I'm curious. ;D

Edit: This one (Code: /tools/tellafriend.bml.sentpage.title) was also changed similarly from Sent! to Sent. Maybe it's because I'm a naturally bouncy person but the lack of an exclamation point seems kind of bland...like, "Ho hum, your post was successful." Instead of "Hooray! Your entry has posted!" *LOL* I realize this might be a quirk of mine but I thought I'd mention it here in case I'm not the only one. NO OFFENSE PLEASE to the person who changed the string!! Okay? ♥

Apparently, it's just me! :D

Comments

[alsatia]

I'm not a site copy person, but I'd have probably removed the exclamation points if I was. I find them unnecessary and annoying.

[forthwritten]

I think it's probably due to the fact that Dreamwidth has to cater for different types of users; one person's 'bouncy and happy' is another person's 'teeth-gnashingly annoying'. I can also think of situations when anything too bouncy would be really inappropriate - if you were posting bad or sad news, for example - and so neutrality isn't a bad thing.

[azurelunatic]

I see there was some irritation with it on LJ too: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/850627.html

[chasy]

Thanks for sharing that!

[chasy]

Interesting point. I think it is just me being a bouncy type person. :/

I read the link Azz shared too, and there are a LOT of people it bothers. I'm definitely in the minority in this case. :)

[liv]

I'm a pretty bouncy person myself and tend to over-use exclamation marks. But I don't like it when websites I want to use try to make their copy bouncy and perky; it just seems artificial and irritating. LJ's copy is really bad that way; it seems patronizing, not cheerful. And yes, we are pretty excited about Dreamwidth, but I don't think the site should be trying to emotionally manipulate people into artificial excitement.

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[piranha]

*nod*. same here.

i like enthusiastic _people_. a lot. i dislike anything programmatically enthusified. what i find endearing in people annoys me when it comes from an artificial construct.

[rainbow]

I'm the exclamation destroyer (or one of them). I love perky in people. In computers it's annoying and twee to me (and always reminds me of the toaster in... er... is it Red Dwarf or HHGttG? -- "Would you like some toast? Nice, fresh toast!! I could make you some toast!").

Plus from an editing standpoint, exclamations don't make sense to me. Something was done successfully, but why would a computer be excited about it?

~Carys the Utterly Boring *g*

[rho]

Talkie's the name! Toasting's the game!

Talkie Toaster is from Red Dwarf. :)

[rainbow]

I *knew* someone would know that. Why am unsurprised that it's you? *g*

~~Goldfish shoals nibbling at my toes; fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun....~~