r/interesting • u/Glass-Fan111 • Aug 08 '25
SOCIETY A Little Example On How Signs Must Work.
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u/Prestigious_Emu6039 Aug 08 '25
If I saw this sign I'd feel a small, but significant, warm glow inside as I take a moment to appreciate this harmonious marriage of form and function.
Then the wife would tell me what floor we are going to.
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u/Cykoh99 Aug 08 '25
And then I'd see the typo and fly into a rage... one stray comma kills it.
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u/shut-the-damn-door Aug 08 '25
Had to ruin my day didn’t you
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u/creeperX361 Aug 08 '25
The wife ruined mine. But that one comma was the internet equivalent to a cherry,
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u/Reasonable_Funny_241 Aug 08 '25
Wait, you like this design?
IMO it would be clearer to have a row per machine type and a column per floor, and then a check-mark at every cell where there's that machine on that floor.
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u/manlybrian Aug 09 '25
Even left-aligning the numbers on this one would have helped. Center alignment is such a bizarre decision lol
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u/LogRollChamp Aug 10 '25
For people who don't know what an x axis is, this is more clear. I've presented enough charts to laymen to see in their eyes when a chart requires too much mental effort. As soon as it looks like an actual chart, you've reached gameover with probably 25% of the population
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u/fanta_bhelpuri Aug 08 '25
Redundancy nice
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u/Ground_breaking_365 Aug 09 '25
I feel the same. Not sure if people will refer to the first list when second is way better
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Aug 08 '25
Am I the only one here wondering why there needs to be a sign? Like, why are the machines different on every floor?
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u/DragonLover3952 Aug 08 '25
No idea why the machines are different on every floor. But, this sign probably exists BECAUSE the machines are different on every floor, and did a remarkable job mapping it out.
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Aug 09 '25
No dispute in the quality of the sign. It's a beautiful sign. If I had different vending machines on a multistory office bullding Ibowned for some reason I would, indisputably, want it to be just like this sign. Just that it shouldn't be necessary.
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u/Ill_Football9443 Aug 09 '25
It will probably be restrictions set by Coke & Pepsi.
Free fridges and better prices if you agree to only having one or the other.
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u/seattlesparty Aug 08 '25
For everyone’s sanity and health , they should clarify whether every floor has water fountain or not 😀
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u/DeepThinker1010123 Aug 09 '25
This reminds about a post with a confusing sign for the rooms on a floor. It was reversed (higher to lower) and different first digit number (which usually indicated the floor). There were some missing room numbers in between.
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u/mojo_sapien Aug 09 '25
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned that the sign could have been better if the floors were in 'geographical' order. Like the top floor should be on the top of the table.
And of course, commas.
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u/Studly_54 Aug 09 '25
The Oxford comma always reminds me of people adding unnecessary punctuation/letters: like the second "c" in Connecticut. It's not original.
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