Of course, there is a Dark Pattern of making a WWW page that seems potentially interesting, and making it nigh on impossible to follow.
It's exemplified by the people who intentionally use wacky fonts with the stated goal that such fonts make people read more carefully and not speed read. And it's exemplified by the video clip where the sound quality is so utterly abysmal that one has to listen extremely hard to make out any speech at all.
The YouTube page for the presentation on the opening page here has complaint after complaint about the sound quality. (YouTube's subtitles system seems completely befuddled by the speaker's British accent, moreover, and is a joy in its own right; with boshifying substitutions practically every second word, such as substituting "patent" for "pattern".)
The pattern classification (in the library that we are told is "on the left of this screen" but is actually in a banner at the top) is interesting, and reminiscent of the classification for propaganda that was used by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis in the U.S. in the 1930s. (See http://www.propagandacritic.com/articles/index.html for example.)
It's exemplified by the people who intentionally use wacky fonts with the stated goal that such fonts make people read more carefully and not speed read. And it's exemplified by the video clip where the sound quality is so utterly abysmal that one has to listen extremely hard to make out any speech at all.
The YouTube page for the presentation on the opening page here has complaint after complaint about the sound quality. (YouTube's subtitles system seems completely befuddled by the speaker's British accent, moreover, and is a joy in its own right; with boshifying substitutions practically every second word, such as substituting "patent" for "pattern".)
The pattern classification (in the library that we are told is "on the left of this screen" but is actually in a banner at the top) is interesting, and reminiscent of the classification for propaganda that was used by the Institute for Propaganda Analysis in the U.S. in the 1930s. (See http://www.propagandacritic.com/articles/index.html for example.)
But this has been on Hacker News before:
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4002625
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5347543
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6301378
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1699875
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7977238