[vi4m]

Maybe it's just me, but I don't like theese cool presentations filled with expressive words 'DO IT!', 'NEVER DON'T DO THAT' "bitches" "programming motherfuckers". It's funny, but not for 100th time.

Another example are pictures, or memes pasted into the presentation. Maybe sometimes it is funny, when there is one funny picture, or the subject of presentation is chalenging.

But very often amount of 'coolness' is too much to me to handle. I often find presenters not knowing subject enough for answering questions(they just make jokes, etc).

Maybe should we just go back to excellent but simple, polite, content(text) rich presentations ?

[RivieraKid]

I agree, I rarely find the "WAT" / cats / etc. funny or cool. I love humour but this has the same level of funniness as someone falling down the stairs in a bad comedy movie.

"Bitches" is not only unfunny, I find it irritating for some reason.

[takluyver]

I agree, the 'one word slides' can be overused. But I don't think text-rich slides are the answer - the audience always ends up focussing on the slides, while the speaker says the same thing. It's like watching TV with subtitles: you can't keep your eyes off the text, and it subtly subtracts from the experience.

I also dislike presentations that have been written in Latex/Markdown and then converted to slides. Slides aren't just a different format to render a document into, they're there to support what a person's saying.

[dagw]

like watching TV with subtitles

Subtitles are great when the volume is way too low, it's in a language you aren't proficient in or the person is talking in a language he isn't proficient in.

For the sort of slides being suggested here to work requires a lot from the topic being presented, the presenter and the audience. Only follow this advice if you're confident that all three components will line up for you.

[saraid216]

It works when the speaker has built a rapport with you. It doesn't work when it's an orphaned slide on a web page.