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  Getting rid of governmentese

  First -- Find a Napoleon's corporal to review and revise the words used in all information shown on your new website. Discard all made-up words, such as dataset and replace with words that can easily be understood by the dumb corporal. As it now stands, the contents of the website sound like a horror story of acronyms and weird words. Second -- eliminate the "choose category" and "tags" boxes completely. Surely someone ...more »

  First -- Find a Napoleon's corporal to review and revise the words used in all information shown on your new website. Discard all made-up words, such as dataset and replace with words that can easily be understood by the dumb corporal. As it now stands, the contents of the website sound like a horror story of acronyms and weird words.

  Second -- eliminate the "choose category" and "tags" boxes completely. Surely someone there is able to figure out into which category the recommended idea falls.

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  Submitted by jfrye13 3 years ago

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