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Looking forward to Ticketmaster adding a "Describe your reasons for wanting to attend this concert in 500 words" text field to their order form, and then the ev

Looking forward to Ticketmaster adding a "Describe your reasons for wanting to attend this concert in 500 words" text field to their order form, and then the evolution of autocomplete AIs to write the best essays.

BoorishBears 4y ago
Or... they could just not allow resale above face value. That alone would wipe out everyone who doesn't want to go but wants to resell for a profit. The rest works itself out within the margin of error... if you want the tickets be there at opening. And before someone else replies in bad faith like the comment I'm replying to did... maybe along the lines of "well what if your internet cuts out!!! or you get hit by a bus at that moment!!!": that's the margin of error. You can't have a perfect meritocracy but you can have a better one.
- cortesoft 4y ago
  > if you want the tickets be there at opening. So now instead of discriminating against people who don’t have enough money, now you are discriminating against people with busy lives who can’t be there right when the tickets go on sale. Also, you would still end up with people who were there right when the tickets go on sale and still didn’t get any. I don’t think your method is any more of a meritocracy.
  - BoorishBears 4y ago
    I spent half the comment trying to head off low-effort bad faith replies and yet here we are... If you can't figure out how biasing sales towards people who want to go to a concert is more meritorious than allowing people who want to resell for more than face in a context where "merit" is literally "wanting to see the show", you need to take a long hard sit and really think this one out. You cannot have perfect system in real life, but you can move away from enabling people with no interest at all in the event to just those who at least had a cursory enough interest when they're not profiting.
- tedunangst 4y ago
  Welcome to bizarro HN, where we hate the first sale doctrine and love DRM.

BoorishBears 4y ago

Or... they could just not allow resale above face value. That alone would wipe out everyone who doesn't want to go but wants to resell for a profit. The rest works itself out within the margin of error... if you want the tickets be there at opening. And before someone else replies in bad faith like the comment I'm replying to did... maybe along the lines of "well what if your internet cuts out!!! or you get hit by a bus at that moment!!!": that's the margin of error. You can't have a perfect meritocracy but you can have a better one.

cortesoft 4y ago
> if you want the tickets be there at opening. So now instead of discriminating against people who don’t have enough money, now you are discriminating against people with busy lives who can’t be there right when the tickets go on sale. Also, you would still end up with people who were there right when the tickets go on sale and still didn’t get any. I don’t think your method is any more of a meritocracy.
- BoorishBears 4y ago
  I spent half the comment trying to head off low-effort bad faith replies and yet here we are... If you can't figure out how biasing sales towards people who want to go to a concert is more meritorious than allowing people who want to resell for more than face in a context where "merit" is literally "wanting to see the show", you need to take a long hard sit and really think this one out. You cannot have perfect system in real life, but you can move away from enabling people with no interest at all in the event to just those who at least had a cursory enough interest when they're not profiting.
tedunangst 4y ago
Welcome to bizarro HN, where we hate the first sale doctrine and love DRM.