Rhia474 posted at 2:04AM Sun, 01 December 2019 - #4371849

I dunno, 'Why should you update to Poser 11.2' is pretty dang important seeming to me -- that was the title of the email I got as an end user on September 16th. Maybe they should have said 'OMG, open immediately otherwise it's the end of the world'??

I've been on a lot of courses about autism recently, having autistic kids and being autistic meself and one thing that came up time and again is that, although autistic people sometimes have difficulty putting things across, neurotypical people are absolutely hopeless - all the damn time - because they almost never say explicitly what needs to be said.

"Why should you update to Poser 11.2" is so bleedin' vague, for one example. For a start, it's a question, not a direct statement. It reads like a sales pitch and, in particular, the kind of sales pitch that everyone remembers and hates from years ago, such as, "A Doctor writes... Why should you switch to Finkler's Pile Cream". It's mealy, weaselly and downright annoying.

If the wording had been simple and direct, many more people would have opened and read it. As it stands, I'll put good money down that a great number of 'em went deleted unread. If you really, absolutely want people to read something, make sure they get a very good idea before opening the mail. "Read this or your copy of Poser will roll over and die" is pretty straightforward.

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