Posts Tagged ‘email’

don’t lie

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Slideshare registration e-mail:

Your SlideShare account is verified. And I’d like to personally welcome you to the World’s largest community for sharing presentations.

You did not just “personally invite me” to do anything. You sent me a form e-mail. Please don’t lie to me in a condescending manner. In general, services should be honest, or in this case, just leave out the details. In this case,

Thanks for verifying your SlideShare account, and welcome to the world’s largest community for sharing presentations!

would have worked just as well without leaving a bitter taste. I really hate SlideShare for more reasons than this, the only reason I signed up was to download some slides.

Update: Now this is personalization! (via HN) It’s about time I got to highlight something good.