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One shortcoming I see is that some dishonest person could target a competitor/company he dislikes by creating fake accounts and subscribing to events just to ma
by DeusExMachina 16y ago
One shortcoming I see is that some dishonest person could target a competitor/company he dislikes by creating fake accounts and subscribing to events just to make these spend money.
I cannot asses if this is a model that could work, but you need to find a way to prevent abuses which could drive away customers.
- sentinel 16y agoThat's a good observation. And come to think of it, I did think of a way to disallow this type of activity, but not entirely. Since the client app will run on a smartphone, the person using the phone will have to reinstall the application many times so that he could intentionally subscribe again and again to an event. So I guess one thing to do would be to register the mobile user with his mobile phone's unique identifier and not allow him to subscribe again to a previously subscribed-to event. Otherwise he would just have to buy more phones, but I don't think that's a practical solution.