Findings / UX-031
"You pay the price" reads as a warning
OpenLowFailurenewsroom.sgit.ai
What we saw
The caption under the usefulness scale reads "You pay the price".
Why it matters
The feature (your rating sets what the page costs you) is a benefit; the wording makes it a threat.
The fix
"Your rating sets what this page costs you".
The record
| Status | Open |
| Severity | Low |
| Kind | Failure: works against the reader |
| Product | newsroom.sgit.ai, site |
| Where | https://newsroom.sgit.ai/articles/ |
| Problems | Alarming wording |
| Visibility | Subtle: felt more than seen: it costs attention or trust, but is not noticed as a bug |
| Recommendation | Say what it is: label it, in the reader's terms, at the moment it matters |
| Area | Money |
| Breaks | Label the money, and never surprise with a charge |
| Observed | 2026-10-11, v0.6.4 |
| Last checked | 2026-10-11, v0.7.1 |
| Source | Review: article page and feedback |
| Prototype | Article & reader primitives, route feedback, in three directions |