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Etab  ·  4332 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: This is driving me crazy - what do we call ourselves?

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Etab  ·  4335 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: So I deleted my reddit account...

I know the feeling. I gave up a couple of months ago.

Etab  ·  4421 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: New site is up!

Looks nice!

I can't remember the last time I've seen a tag cloud. As a UX designer, I recommend against them since they're not typically useful to users. Well-organized navigation and on-site search tools are usually effective. But maybe on an educational site like yours, where there's emphasis on learning and discovering, listing everything might actually be a good thing.

Also, thank you for using the correct Twitter logo. One of my biggest personal pet peeves of mine is the bubbly "t" logo!

Etab  ·  4424 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Unmasking Reddit’s Violentacrez, The Biggest Troll on the Web

Wow. Yes, I agree. It's one thing to come out against repulsive behavior, but it's another thing entirely to make such personal, direct, well-calculated attacks.

Etab  ·  4426 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ask Hubski: Have you ever been in a car accident when you are the driver?

Luckily, I've never been involved in an accident.

I know it's impossible to control others' actions on the road, but I think it's possible to minimize the potential for an accident by always driving defensively. I've been driving for over six years and have amassed over 120,000 miles on the road, and I've never so much as received a scratch on my car.

I did have a few close calls when I was starting out driving -- like I suspect most drivers do -- but I was able to learn from all of those.

I found that if you drive as if everyone else around you is an unpredictable, terrible driver, you'll likely end up being safer. You can predict what each car might do and be very situationally aware.

The only time I was in any accident ever was in a school bus in high school -- someone thought they could beat the bus by pulling out at a side road while the bus was on the main road. The person in the other car didn't make it and scraped the side of the bus.