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I don't understand why you'd think this is annoying. They're asking you to spread the word if it's a service you're interested in, and in return they'll give yo
by marknutter 15y ago
I don't understand why you'd think this is annoying. They're asking you to spread the word if it's a service you're interested in, and in return they'll give you a higher place in line. Seems very reasonable to me.
- snowtiger 15y agoFor me it is annoying because I have to advertise something that I don't know anything about and does not really exist yet.
- nuclear_eclipse 15y agoMy own personal feeling is that anything that asks (or even demands, like iheartradio) me to spam my friends, I will immediately discard that company or product from my memory. I don't want to see my friends randomly spamming me about services they haven't even gotten to try; why would I want to spam my friends about something that I have no idea how good it is?
- untog 15y agoBut the problem is that you haven't even been able to try it yet, so you're "blind recommending". It's a bit pyramid scheme-y, really- you bring yourself closer to a potential pay-off by involving other people that trust you. That might be fine if I'm forwarding it to other people in the HN-type crowd, but I often tell my less tech-inclined friends about cool services I've started using. But I would never recommend something to my friends without being able to try it myself and work out if it is recommendation-worthy.
- damncabbage 15y agoI agree with untog and snowtiger. On top of that, it seems that the "queue" is completely artificial most of the time, which makes it feel doubly scummy. (There was a service advertised here a while back during the first wave of the social-queue-jumping fad - it said you could either get in immediately, or wait seven days. There was no way in heck the queue was that long; I ditched it and found something else.)