Internet's Spammy, Scammy 'Bad Neighborhoods' Mapped by Study

It would be great if there were some hard and fast rules/methods could be published to help us avoid them.....

Jus how good is the internet capability in Greenland? Aren't the residents too busy hunting fish?

Another map completely useless for anyone with even a mild form of the most common type of 'color blindness' (trouble discriminating between red and green) - which affects about 1/6th the male population and 1/50th the female population, in varying degrees.

The same info using shades of red and turquoise would be understandable by 99.99% of all readers. (Or, just increasingly darker shades of gray.) Is the red-green combination the default color scheme for the program that generated the map? Or did the writer pick this scheme unconcerned/unaware that some readers would be lost on this map?

Majority rule. Deal with it.

Actually, though you are correct that (mostly) some males only will not be able to distinguish the different colours, its not really the fault of the ones who can see the colours though!!!!!

Do you expect us to correct for the few?

You will have to wait a long time I feel!!

The people with colour blindness can buy cheap filters, or even contact lenses which will allow them to distinguish between the problem colours. So if they are too cheap/too lazy to buy them and carry them about with them, that is their fault!!!

I wear glasses, if I left them at home and could not read something, that is my fault, nobody else's.....the same goes for colour blind people and carrying a helpful filter.....

Believe me, I'm not holding my breath for this to happen. I'm also not 'blaming' anyone. I'm not faulting people with correct color vision; nor am I faulting the color blind for being color blind.

It's like making a pair of binoculars with no focus adjustment. Or an automobile that with a fixed position driver's seat. Or not making golf clubs for left-handed people.

What I'm saying is that an easy change in the graphing software would mean the problem would never arise. I've seen websites that promote graphics design guidelines that do this.

As for the tinted lens, it has a drawbacks. Sure, color blind people could carry around a filter. Short people could carry a seat cushion if they need to rent a car; tall people could just be content to scrunch down, or lay in the back seat and hire an average-height driver. Left-handers could learn to golf right-handed, or just play putter golf.

Well it's certainly not intentional but I have no idea why so many things seem to use red/green as a default scheme. When I worked for a large computer company many years ago and we were developing some "new" CRT monitors, they used green phosphorus backgrounds and red text! I found out it was a problem, when one of my employees that I'd assigned to do some testing on the units, said he couldn't see anything on the screen! "I said it's full of red lettering that I can see fine!" He then disclosed that he was R/G color blind and we called the design team together and made some changes fast! White letters worked just fine!

You could just read the thesis....

http://doc.utwente.nl/84507/1/thesis_G_Moura.pdf

One wonders how colour-blind people deal with traffic signals at road intersections. If they are vertical, then one can always remember that the red one is at the top. How it works for horizontal ones is definitely something for the curious mind.

"One wonders how colour-blind people deal with traffic signals at road intersections."

Indeed.

just nuke them like USA did to Japan, and we can win the war...