My unsolicited advice for Slate’s Green Challenge with Treehugger (past posts re: my participation are here and here):

If you’re gonna make people fill out a registration form and pick a username / password, make use of that user registration.

After slogging through 8 weeks of questionnaires, I logged on to take the Green Challenge wrap-up quiz. And v. annoyingly, the damn final quiz started asking me all the questions all over again — the only changes being verb tense changes from future to past.

This means that as opposed to asking “Will you check the tires on your car monthly” as on the previous quiz, it now asked “Have you checked the tires on your car monthly.”

Yes, all the poor challenge takers have been “invited” to answer 8-weeks worth of questions all over again. Note to Slate and Treehugger: When one sees “Questions 1 – 2 of 58” on the first page, one is not terribly inclined to forge on.

My point: If you’re gonna ask that people register, well then use the info from those registrations. Why not just ask me ’bout the pledges I resolved to take? I already said I wasn’t gonna buy a hybrid car in the next year — I’m just trying to eventually get rid of the car I have. Why’re you asking me just a few weeks later if I’m gonna buy a hybrid again?

Good sites, but a less-than friendly challenge that leads to eco-frustration instead of eco-enlightenment –

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