It could be called a dark pattern?
Make signing up complicated and difficult to discourage people from signing up. What's that practice called?
Submitted 10 months ago by cameron_vale@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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breakingcups@lemmy.world 10 months ago
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ya, it would probably be a type of dark pattern.
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I just heard the term “administrative burden”. But that’s pretty vague.
PrinceWith999Enemies@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I actually think that’s not a bad phrase at all depending on the context. I wouldn’t use it if it’s about signing up for a commercial website account unless you’re a consultant, but if you’re talking about signing up for government services, I think it’s perfect.
Governments know that administrative burdens increase participation costs. Government agencies and administrators that are trying to reduce utilization of a program without going through the burden or optics of changing a law will make every effort to make it harder to get. Imagine if you could sign up for SNAP, welfare, healthcare, and register to vote with one click. I think we’d find program utilization would soar.
What if someone undeserving takes advantage of the system? Well, that’s why universal programs can be more efficient. There’s no qualifying for a program because it’s universal. Remove tuition from public colleges and universities - you’ve eliminated the administrative burden of navigating aid programs and scholarships and opened up higher education.
Definitely not the worst phrase.
digger@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Voter Suppression.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Government bureaucracy
Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Makes me think of that joke where you need to fill out three different forms on the third floor to get in line to fill out the one real form.
RyruGrr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ron Swanson smirks at your comment.
XiELEd@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Barrier of Bureaucracy
guyrocket@kbin.social 10 months ago
Setting the bar too high.
Barriers to entry.
Setting the bar to entry too high.
Setting the barriers to entry too high.
Setting too high the bar-barriers to entry.
Setting too high the barbarians to entry.
Setting too high the barbarians to entropy.
Setting the entropy barbarians too high.
sibannac@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Gate keeping
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 10 months ago
The UK benefits system.
Nemo@midwest.social 10 months ago
Attention tax
subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Positive denial.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Reverse Comcast
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Dictatorship by red tape
AlgeriaWorblebot@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
Red tape.
sour@kbin.social 10 months ago
what is context for question
cameron_vale@lemm.ee 10 months ago
In my state, getting certain government benefits, over the past decade, was a matter of five minutes on the phone with an official.
As of this year it’s a scary maze of a paper application. The online application process is “temporarily out of service”. Conversation with a relevant official is no longer offered. And while you were trying to make sense of all that we stopped your benefits.
What we’re seeing here is a way to stop providing benefits, but without the legislative hassles.
otter@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I can’t think of a specific term, but it might be summed up as “reducing access and adding unnecessary barriers to discourage the use of benefits”?
Adding enough friction to the process that people are more likely to give up during the process. It’s something that can be countered with non profits that exist to help guide people through the process
sour@kbin.social 10 months ago
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ramble81@lemm.ee 10 months ago
High barrier to entry?