geni wrote:
No. It's a
dumb term only used by people who can't operate a web browser.
Would you like to withdraw that statement? If not can you provide any
sources to back it up (ie that every person who useses it doesn't know
how to use a web browser?)
It's not so much whether people know how to operate the web
browser, it's that it makes referring to WP an unduly risky
activity. For instance, suppose I'm in the office of a less-clueful
boss, and am trying to get the boss to understand a detail, and I
know WP has a good explanation; it's not going to help my case if
I have to ask the boss to turn off image display before I have
him/her bring up a WP page.
This is another variant on the child-safe debate, and maybe
the filtering needs to be done by a downstream organization (who
could make a nice bit of money from a subscription service I bet),
but if WP gets a reputation as risky to look at, and companies
feel compelled to forbid its use at work, that's going to cut us
off from a large population of professionals that we would really
like to have participating, and during the day, not just nights
and weekends.
Stan