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Beyond the privacy concerns raised by others, I am not sure what this would amount to. Interesting conversations don't happen everyday, so this site might becom
by vinayms 8y ago
Beyond the privacy concerns raised by others, I am not sure what this would amount to. Interesting conversations don't happen everyday, so this site might become just a collection of random email conversations that people submit that think is interesting. I am not sure if anyone wants to read them either.
Further, I don't think everything is "communityfiable". Like I said earlier, interesting conversations don't happen often, so stuff like following a person due to his one email upload or whatever, recommendations etc all seem a bit too much. Following would make sense if it is someone who uploads stuff often, but in this case anyone who does it would be breaching someone else's privacy unless the uploader is part of the conversation and everyone agrees to share it. But, again, as I said earlier, interesting conversations happen only once in a while.
That said, I remember how twitter was derided in the beginning as being a platform for people to share boring stuff that no one cares about, but it turned out to become something else, though not by design but only by chance, and is now quite successful.
- Alex3917 8y agoThese things sometimes evolve in unexpected ways, and sometimes it just takes a while for people to figure out how to really use something. Use cases I think are especially compelling: - Industry leaders who get asked the same questions a lot - Professors and notable intellectuals who already give their email archives to a university when they die, and would like some of the accessible on the web. - Politicians. Their emails are already published under FOIA, but I think it would be super useful to folks campaigning also. - YouTubers, bloggers, Twitch folks, etc. And then there are dozens of business use cases also for sharing stuff internally. I’m sure there are lots of other uses beyond these though!