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> Why does your site have user accounts? We will use registered users to help us moderate our content. We also want to work, eventually, on creating a network
by spottiness 15y ago
> Why does your site have user accounts?
We will use registered users to help us moderate our content. We also want to work, eventually, on creating a network of trust. By the way, user accounts are optional, not required to create spots or comment about them.
> It seems like it's combining different audiences at once...
The fundamental difference between our service and tumblr, yelp, etc, is that our main content (the spots) must be anonymous. We don't want to know who is the author of a spot. Anonymity is the core of what we do because what matters to us is only what people think.
So far, about 50% of the spots are goldspots, and the other 50% evenly divided between blackspots and lovespots. The fact that goldspots are dominating makes us happy.
> why does Read More reload the page?
Read More takes you the the page of the specific spot.
> They might not care whether you think it meets your standard of good taste?
Common sense is common (pun intended). If a spot doesn't look "publishable" to us at Spottiness, the probability that it will look the same to the majority is high.
Thanks for taking the time to look at our site!