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Submitter’s comments: A new and revolting form of Mystery Meat Navigation. Information that could have been presented all together in half a screen as a static bullet items list, is, for no reason but bling, spread out in a faux Windows Metro layout. Each tiny morsel of information is hidden until you flip it around, and it instantly flips back to make sure you need to remember it if you decide to look at another.

Very smooth animation, though (at least on my system). I can’t remember a single fact from that screen.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I agree with everything you say and I’ll add that since the Mystery Meat was labeled – does that make it un-Mystery Meat? – I’ll partially excuse it. Oh, it’s been 30 seconds and I, too, can’t remember a single fact from that screen

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Submitter’s comments: Please note my nomination. I never saw such a terrible page.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: Part of me is happy that you’ve never seen such a terrible page; however, the other part of me is sad because you haven’t been perusing my site.

The screenshot above seems to show a relatively benign looking website—one that WPTS rarely shows. You have to go to the page in question and take a look. What catches your eyes first is all the animations. These jerky GIFs and movies are horribly distracting and visitors will have difficulty on focusing on what’s most important on the page. By the way, what is most important on the page?

All it takes to make the page harmless is stop the motion.

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