{"id":25,"date":"2004-02-04T01:21:28","date_gmt":"2004-02-04T09:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=25"},"modified":"2010-01-18T02:19:22","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T10:19:22","slug":"stupid-registration-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/archives\/2004\/02\/04\/stupid-registration-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupid registration forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I like PalmSource (the company that makes Palm OS), its registration forms always bug me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There are always questions that are required but don&#8217;t apply to me<\/strong>, such as job title, company name, number of employees, what distribution systems I use, what type of market I&#8217;m targeting, and so on.  Admittedly, the majority of registrants shouldn&#8217;t have any trouble answering these questions.  On the other hand, a significant number of Palm OS developers are hobbyists who don&#8217;t represent their employers, and these days a lot of people are unemployed.<\/p>\n<p>If your marketing department demands that you require demographic information in your registration forms, remind them that <strong>disinformation is worse than no information<\/strong>.  If nothing else, <strong>provide &#8220;not applicable&#8221; or &#8220;I don&#8217;t know&#8221; options<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I like PalmSource (the company that makes Palm OS), its registration forms always bug me. There are always questions that are required but don&#8217;t apply to me, such as job title, company name, number of employees, what distribution systems I use, what type of market I&#8217;m targeting, and so on. Admittedly, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rantsraves","category-usability","tag-ecommerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slimjimmy.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}