Comment on Australia’s red and yellow beach flags can confuse tourists. Is it time to change them?

Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  There’s a good argument to be made for intuitive design. Red means danger, green means safe. That’s a pretty worldwide understanding. Yellow means caution; that’s a little less universal, but still pretty common.

  There are, in my opinion, good reasons to not say “safe” at the beach under any circumstances, so I don’t think using green flags is a great idea, but that doesn’t mean some other form of tweaking is inappropriate.

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  • Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    caution-danger sounds like a good colour combo for the beach eh, especially if we’re looking out for clueless tourists who think the ocean is a big bathtub.

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    • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Sure, but without a danger-danger elsewhere, a caution-danger might reasonably be interpreted as “don’t swim here”

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    alternatively just have up bigass signs saying “Swim between flags when on display”. They used to be pretty ubiquitous

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That runs into the problem mentioned in the article that I was just discussing with @Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world, where people apparently interpret “swim between flags” differently.

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      • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Not really hard - just have an iconography of the flags with red X marks left and right, and a green tick and swimmer in the middle of the two flags

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  • eureka@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What about green and yellow?

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Too close to green and gold, the indication “only Australians can swim here”.

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