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Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture
- mixmax 19y agoWe used to use a picture of a monkey. Worked great as well.
- pibefision 19y agoThis is not a great idea. There are many people out there googling your name, and they will think that you choose that avatar.
- robg 19y agoThus the incentive to change it. I like it!
- bayareaguy 19y agoI get incensed when I see incenting used this way.
- mechanical_fish 19y agoGiven that the more established alternative is incentivize, which is at least 50% more awful, I welcome this newly abbreviated word.
- vixen99 19y agoYou mean it could be as much as 60% more awful?
- kul 19y agoincenting is a word? i always thought it was incentivizing. in any case, both are ugly words.
- jamesbritt 19y agoI guess "motivating" would be too obvious.
- aston 19y agoIt's not really a word, but it basically is. Just like irregardless. Language moves on, no matter how much it annoys us.
- zach 19y agoIt's a perfectly normal word, if you talk like this: "Once you incent knowledge workers to leverage their core competencies, you empower them to impact the bottom line."
- ivankirigin 19y agoMaybe it's a pun. Pissing users off with their profile pic to make them want to change it.
- henning 19y agoOr if your typical user is a MySpace retard, your site will become known as that weird place where everyone has a boner for Dick Cheney.
- staunch 19y agoRepublicans use social networks too. The challenge would be to come up with some universally disliked person to use. I nominate Mr. Bean and Peewee Herman.
- omakase 19y agoi understand the problem, but shouldn't the incentive be a service users _want_ to use and share with their friends?
- mwooller 19y agoInciting the user to check for words that do not exist.
- samueladam 19y agoI have a better rule. People with pictures can see other profiles pictures otherwise they get a message explaining the rule.