When you're asking people to click through, putting barriers in their way isn't a good idea - and tongue-in-cheek humour is never going to communicate in a text based medium.
Hey ho - this is a molehill rather than a mountain.
and tongue-in-cheek humour is never going to communicate in a text based medium.
I disagree with that strongly - it works very well in magazines, for instance.
I suspect its tendency to fail on the internet is to do with immediacy - people tend to read it faster than they do printed media, and thus "tells" as to the tone need to be flagged up more strongly.
Either that, or the internet really is just one big argument generating engine. :)
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Date: 2006-04-21 03:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-04-21 03:41 pm (UTC)Hey ho - this is a molehill rather than a mountain.
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Date: 2006-04-21 03:50 pm (UTC)I disagree with that strongly - it works very well in magazines, for instance.
I suspect its tendency to fail on the internet is to do with immediacy - people tend to read it faster than they do printed media, and thus "tells" as to the tone need to be flagged up more strongly.
Either that, or the internet really is just one big argument generating engine. :)