OK, speaking as a student of political science here... Isn't there the exact same issue with country names? And yet we use those...<div><br></div><div>Or am I missing something?</div><div>Fab</div><div><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smooge@gmail.com">smooge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 01:36, Fabian A. Scherschel <<a href="mailto:fab@sixgun.org">fab@sixgun.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> I think flags are great, very visual and immediately understandable. As for<br>
> controversial, you can find dissenting opinions on everything you do if your<br>
> audience is big enough. We can't cater to *everybody* and the vast majority<br>
> of flags are actually quite "safe", IMO.<br>
> Fab<br>
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</div>It is the not safe ones and the semi-safe ones that seem to cause the<br>
most energy/time lost. China/Taiwain, various Sri Lanka and Cyprus<br>
ones.. I think have all caused issues. I also believe there was a<br>
problem where certain flags may only be presented in some format or<br>
would cause legal issues (or where the display of another flag would<br>
cause issues to people inside of one territory or another).<br>
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So yes flags are nice symbolic things that tell people what they are<br>
getting. They can also be a major problem at times due to that exact<br>
reason. I would say that for 80% of the flags you are going to be<br>
mostly ok. Its that 20% that you will need to either avoid and find<br>
something else.<br>
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