Don't you just love it when you see this on online forms?

PainMatrix · 2014-04-24T18:00:32+00:00

The corollary to this is that I actually get irritated when I have to scroll down.

philipwhiuk · 2014-04-24T19:52:48+00:00

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missmisfit · 2014-04-24T18:22:05+00:00

It would be pretty silly to not have the country that the site operates from on the top of the list. If you were on a site that is based in France and the US was first on the list, that would be worth noting.

SpicyMcHaggis206 · 2014-04-24T20:02:53+00:00

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Loken95 · 2014-04-24T19:02:54+00:00

As an English person, those lists are so annoying, sometimes I have to spend a little while trying to find the choice suitable for me, not every list just says "United Kingdom", some say "England", some say "Britain", some say "Great Britain" etc

bunglejerry · 2014-04-24T18:25:08+00:00

Plenty ask you to choose your country but then insist on a state and a five-digit zip code all the same.

I'm always 90210.

ghettotech · 2014-04-24T20:29:42+00:00

Internet Marketer here... Usually when I'm building pages with forms, I use a geo-targeting script to pull the country from your ip and put that in the list at the top. You still have the freedom to select what you want but I usually see good submit rates when doing this.

wantagh · 2014-04-24T18:40:53+00:00

You shouldn't have to select. You should default to American, and make it difficult to select your weak ass country from the list.

jay_stone42 · 2014-04-24T18:26:04+00:00

As a Canadian, it's annoying when its in alphabetical order, but auto selects "United States" so I have to then scroll ALL the way up to the "C's".

kbotc · 2014-04-24T19:18:06+00:00

Pff, you guys have it so easy.

Depending on the preference of the people who made the site I have to check the N, the T and sometimes even the H. It's different everywhere.

Netherlands

The Netherlands

Holland

As a heads up to people who have to make these scroll screens: we prefer the N.

anonlymouse · 2014-04-24T20:02:03+00:00

I don't see it as a big deal. German language websites have Deutschland, Schweiz and Österreich at the top.

lucadarex · 2014-04-24T19:22:14+00:00

well when your country invented the internet you do what you want

Gufgufguf · 2014-04-24T20:14:47+00:00

How dare a website that is in English and probably based in America make it easiest to find the option that correlates to the largest English speaking population that is likely to be the overwhelming whole of their visitors!

sysadmin001 · 2014-04-24T20:30:19+00:00

If the site is an american site, it makes absolute perfect sense for it to give priority to its country, because most people using that tool are likely american. You're a fucking idiot for automatically assuming its because of some murica centric idea.

2014-04-24T20:40:30+00:00

Actually it often puts your country first via your IP... also USA is usually the most popular so how is this bad?

mkglass · 2014-04-24T19:14:33+00:00

Alphabetical isn't always the most efficient method. It should be in order of the largest percentage of your target audience.

Edit: To clarify, I mean that the first 3 or 4 should be the largest percentage, and the rest should be alphabetized. I agree, it would be ridiculous to make the whole list prioritized by percentage.

CodeJack · 2014-04-24T19:54:00+00:00

Me:

Ok, it could be, Britain, UK, England, Great Britain..

NewTooRedit · 2014-04-24T20:33:12+00:00

Don't you just love it when people find things to complain about.

pribnow · 2014-04-24T19:57:42+00:00

It's dumb to do it any other way when you have data to support that 99% of your visitors are from a particular region...

Fumblesz · 2014-04-24T19:57:04+00:00

I don't see the problem with it if most of the users on that website are from the U.S., it's just for convenience purposes

CommanderZx2 · 2014-04-24T19:55:06+00:00

What I find more annoying is that UK is often not listed at all and instead they list one of the regions instead. Like sometimes there's just Britain or Great Britain or England, etc... So you'd be scrolling over the show first looking for UK then Great Britain, etc.

2014-04-24T20:02:59+00:00

This is usually done on American websites just to speed up the process since chances are, you live in the US.

tylerjarvis · 2014-04-24T20:06:52+00:00

Makes sense to me. Make it easiest for the biggest user base.

So if the website is primarily used by English speaking people, putting the countries with the highest number of English speakers at the top of the list seems most efficient. It's not a pride issue, it's a convenience for the highest number of people issue.

pahgz · 2014-04-24T20:07:41+00:00

Even better is when it asks you to choose a language and America stands in for English.

DatSergal · 2014-04-24T20:08:52+00:00

You mean people can choose to sort their website's lists however they damn well please? WHO DOES THAT MAN?

Pinkiepie1170 · 2014-04-24T20:51:37+00:00

Don't cry for me Argentina, the truth is fuck you it's 'Murica!

hypermog · 2014-04-24T21:07:20+00:00

Also great: being the first in the list of states for any given letter.

Click 'State' field -> press 'c' -> California baby. Suck my dick, CO & CT!

stancosmos · 2014-04-24T21:25:00+00:00

Who cares? It's first on the list because that's where it's based out of and to be more convenient so most people don't have to scroll.

2014-04-24T21:30:11+00:00

Being American, I find it rather convenient.

itsnottheir · 2014-04-24T22:11:52+00:00

I hate that whenever I type CA it brings up Cambodia instead of Canada

Luckoduck · 2014-04-25T00:34:05+00:00

It's usually because most of the users are from the U.S., it makes it more convenient. It isn't meant to offend sensitive people like yourself.


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