codeforamerica / civic-tech-patterns

common patterns and anti-patterns for civic tech and civic apps
http://codeforamerica.github.io/civic-tech-patterns
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Anti-idea: It's broken #46

Open bensheldon opened 7 years ago

bensheldon commented 7 years ago

Rhetorical hyperbole can leak into outcomes or beg solutions. Instead, parse through more nuanced and less absolute states (missing, misconfigured, misused, misunderstood, misapplied, unscheduled, etc).