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Why do you people keep rating things so low?
Authored by: itistoday on Apr 12, '07 09:02:02PM

Almost every hint on OS X hints is either 3 stars or below. The average of 7 people's votes on this hint was 1 star. Did this hint offend you? How do you rationalize giving this hint 1 star? Actually, let me rephrase that, why would you go out of your way to give this hint a 1 star rating? Did it offend you or something??



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Why do you people keep rating things so low?
Authored by: scottdb on Apr 12, '07 11:02:18PM

Some hints just beg me to question the reason for them in the first place. I give this hint three stars. Why?

How about just addressing the cause of the clutter on the desktop. If you have a good filing system, you won't have this problem in the first place. Don't store everything on the desktop.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure (or whatever the expression is...)

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Why do you people keep rating things so low?
Authored by: palsyboy on Apr 13, '07 08:32:57AM

I'm with kchrist and scottdb; that's why I gave it one star. All of my apps save or download to either /Users/palsyboy/Downloads or /Users/palsyboy/Documents. It takes fives minutes to set that up, and after saving or downloading something, it takes all of ten seconds to move it to a proper place. Or even if a user prefers to use Spotlight to access all files, they can still just make a folder such as /Users/palsyboy/Archive or something, and still keep everything off the desktop.

The desktop is a metaphor, and it should be treated as such. Keep necessary tools there and nothing more.



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