[Typo3-t3board] 24h - 80

[Alexander Baß | Die gute Stube]

Am 08.10.2005 11:19 schrieb Mathias Schreiber [wmdb]:

> The only real unfair thing is people taking up seats at a snowboard
> tour without skiing or riding snowboards. And if everybody who knows
> he/she won't spend 6 days on the slopes chose not to come (btw. if
> not snowboarding, why attend a snowboard tour?) there would have been
> plenty of places left.

looking at all the numbers and percentages i consider it _extremely_
unfair, registering via a online form like that.
people with long names, long city names, long country names and long
company names are having _great disadvantages_.

see me for example: i had to hit 84 keys to complete registration,
including <tab> or mouseklicks for jumping the fields.

in knowledge of my handicap i even added no suggestion for a
T3BOARD06-theme song first, in order to get registration done faster. i
added that later.

there are people that registered with only 30 keystrokes.

is that fair?

what about people from switzerland, signing up with "schweiz", not
"switzerland" just for saving 4 characters? we _are_ international,
aren't we? so let's do it in eglish.

what about people from germany, signing in with a simple "D" for the
country? they safe a number of _6_ characters doing so!

is that fair?


what about people from "the netherlands", signung up with "nederland" in
order to save 6 keystrokes?

is that fair?


seeing the following list of all countries, people registered from, you
recognize who has the biggest disadvantages:

D
Denmark
Germany
Belgium
England
Austria
Schweiz
Den haag (is it a country?!?)
Nederland
Switzerland
Deutschland
The Netherlands

people from the netherlands are handicapped just because of living there
_and_ being so honest to use the official typo3-language english. (see
the netherlands <-> nederland, 6 strokes!)

is that fair?


okay, people from germany, handicapping themselves while typing
"deutschland" instead of the 4-strokes-saving and internationally
typo3-official accepted variant "germany" cannot be helped. hehe.


if you want to see some more statistics about company-names or
preference for long pre- and family-names in some countries and
discrimination of people because of that, i'm sure i can provide them. ;-)


so what's the solution?

i propose a pre-registration-period, where everyone can fill in the data
and get a - lets say - 4-character-registration-code afterwards.
with tis key final-registration can be done. fair and without
disadvantage for anyone.



scnr

alexander


don't know if you all find it that funny, but _i_ do! ;-)