Posted by Rick Brandt on 02/18/07 01:29

the red dot wrote:
> are we always to produce websites for the lowest common denominator,
> are we always to assume web users are idiots, is it wrong to assume
> that web users have some sort of web surfing experience, if so is it
> wrong (for example) to use words in the content that idiots would not
> understand or to produce something that may be beyond the thought
> processes of an imbecile?

I would always assume that most users are idiots. I would also not hesitate in
the slightest to write, create, or orate right over their heads.

Catering to idiots just makes more of them. Besides, by not catering to them,
every once in a great while an idiot might come to the realization that he is an
idiot. That realization is a start on the road to improvement.

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