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As Kevin said,
As for the picture heteronormatizing the content... it's an explicitly hetero story, because it's my story. Don't you think it'd be weird to have a homosexual couple in the lead photo for my story?
People indeed like pictures- but stock photos on articles about romance and relationships pattern match to really awful websites.
I presume that tenshiko isn't suggesting a photo of a gay couple. Tenshiko is suggesting no picture. Kevin's point does still seem relevant in that context however.
You predict my opinion correctly - as I've said elsewhere I have other aesthetic concerns due to the picture itself. At the very least I think it'd look much better with a colored background, because of the cutout effect I mention.
I like the photo, but the deviation point is a good one, which you did not address. Was that purposeful?
Yes. I deviate because people like pictures, and LW is not adequately taking advantage of this fact.
Do LW readers like pictures? It seems like the feedback has primarily been negative. Know your audience...
Lukeprog said people like pictures. The feedback has been primarily negative because pictures are not the status quo and people, including LW readers, have a mild preference for cultural norms to be preserved, not challenged.
So you're saying pictures add so little value that "aiee, this is a change" overwhelms it? Can we remove them and be done with it, then?
Crowds typically react negatively to change no matter what postive effects it brings. Wizards of the Coast has a track record of making decisions that were necessary and beneficial to the long term health of their games, each of which brought in new players and which old players eventually adapted to, and every single one of them produced an uproar.
To me, the proper response seems more likely to be using this as an opportunity to adjust our status quo bias downwards.
Yes, but in addition to it being change, it's also genuinely a change I don't like. I've visited enough website to know what I do and don't like. A small topic indicator icon like you see on Slashdot would be fine.
I realize you're getting rather piled on in this thread, so I'm somewhat reluctant to nitpick like this, but:
expresses an idea that is distinct from
It's not all about you, basically.
I like pictures, though not necessarily these particular pictures. Still, I like seeing at a glance a picture that has some connection to the topic of the article.
Not every change is an improvement, but every improvement is a change.