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I would expect that it contributes to sales both by creating a fake sense of validation from others and by creating a fake sense of urgency (get it while in sto
by mgrund 5y ago
I would expect that it contributes to sales both by creating a fake sense of validation from others and by creating a fake sense of urgency (get it while in stock!), both of which are good tools to compromise decision making of the buyer.
- xwolfi 5y agoOn top of validation and urgency that are negative, you have also a true sense of popularity that indicates that the product works, has good reputation, fits a common purpose or is priced correctly. Crowd selection isn't negative, in fact without it we d just be picking fruit at random in the forest with a good chance of dying of poisonning, instead of chatting online... on a popular forum we think like minded people also frequent, having opinions we suppose we'll be interested in on posts that are ranked by upvotes :p
- Sightline 5y agoCrowd selection lead to Hitler, Jan 6th, COVID denial, Jonestown, etc.. Just because everyone believes the world is flat doesn't make it so.
- breakfastduck 5y ago"People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis, you can't trust people Jez." - Super Hans.
- xwolfi 5y agoBut I mean, you immediately went to Hitler which is a lazy exit in a discussion and hard for me to defend, but let's try, since I'm French. When Germany had to submit to the Versaille Treaty and pay gold fines every year until 1975, went into a crisis compounded by the US financial crisis and we robbed the Ruhr coal mines to solve our own issues, voting Hitler with all his promises may have turned Germany around from its abject submission and sad destiny. It was too far into insanity but... wasnt it better than having the French elites continue to think that Germany had to be punished forever ? At least in school in France we now learn not to blame ONLY the little guy voting out of despair, but also the unfair winners of WWI. Without that crowd deciding together to do something, anything, where would Germany be today ? Hard to be optimistic in 1933. And it drove the WWII winners into building a better post-war reparation program, not only explained by the communist scarecrow but also the lessons of the inception of WWII in Germany: revenge against abject humiliation.