>...you're probably going to confuse more people by trying to change it
Confuse who? Techies that already know what it is, or pointy-haired-bosses that make all the decisions? Give it a revolting, and undignified name, and maybe it will stop being used.
While I applaud this work going into giving this phenomenon a name so it can be shown the light. It needs a non-technical name to demonstrate how bad it is.
>There are lots of terminologies that are even more obscure but still well-understood because they've been used for a long time:
This is a new phrase, created around 2010 [0], the same year the site was registered [1]. You have a list of phrases, but none of them are proof we shouldn't change this one, because yours are all technical terms. Dark UI Pattern is clever phrase for a marketing problem, not a technical one. And "Dark pattern" is a very, very obscure and weak in meaning. Consider what is more effective at getting an instantly recognizable response:
-Dark UI Pattern
vs
-Dirty Rotten Button Design
That's a crap name, but describes the situation much more accurately. It does matter to change the name if your intent is to describe that it's evil, deceptive and manipulative. Here's George Carlin talking about the BS of weak and impotent language. [3]
Confuse who? Techies that already know what it is, or pointy-haired-bosses that make all the decisions? Give it a revolting, and undignified name, and maybe it will stop being used.
While I applaud this work going into giving this phenomenon a name so it can be shown the light. It needs a non-technical name to demonstrate how bad it is.
>There are lots of terminologies that are even more obscure but still well-understood because they've been used for a long time:
This is a new phrase, created around 2010 [0], the same year the site was registered [1]. You have a list of phrases, but none of them are proof we shouldn't change this one, because yours are all technical terms. Dark UI Pattern is clever phrase for a marketing problem, not a technical one. And "Dark pattern" is a very, very obscure and weak in meaning. Consider what is more effective at getting an instantly recognizable response:
That's a crap name, but describes the situation much more accurately. It does matter to change the name if your intent is to describe that it's evil, deceptive and manipulative. Here's George Carlin talking about the BS of weak and impotent language. [3][0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern
[1] https://darkpatterns.org/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n2PW1TqxQk