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It's kinda funny and clever. It will fall down if they do it consistently. People who want to attend these kinds of events will begin to know that the "event c
by dotBen 17y ago
It's kinda funny and clever. It will fall down if they do it consistently.
People who want to attend these kinds of events will begin to know that the "event canceled" stickers have been put up by the government and are false information. Presumably the stickers will look the same, and also who goes and bothered to put up "canceled" stickers if they genuinely are canceled?
It may even become a cachet - "dude, our event got stickered as 'canceled' by the government" etc.
- DannoHung 17y agoSimple way to defeat that is to just come up with a bunch of different sticker designs. Or, you could be even more devious. The town council could start putting up fake posters in non-designated spots that would mislead people to believe that something was happening when it wasn't. That way, non-approved locations will become associated with poisoned wells. A random person wouldn't be able to trust flyers in non-approved locations.
- viraptor 17y agoHow should a random person know which location is approved and which is not? Sure - bins and other such places are obvious, but I would expect many locations to be just as likely to confuse an average person.
- tptacek 17y agoThe problem with this idea is that people who hang concert posters don't sticker them when there are date changes. People are just going to ignore the stickers. Concert posters aren't a lead generation mechanism. They're awareness marketing. The point of concert posters is to get you to go to a website to buy tickets. They don't need correct information.
- paulgb 17y agoSo they'd be combating sign pollution by putting up more signs? Doesn't seem like much of a solution. Even if they succeeded and people stopped posting up "real" posters, as soon as they stopped posting "fake" posters the "real" posters could go back up again.