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Most of this can be gamed, even the $10^6 purchase: a bunch of shell-companies, buying and selling between them, but the net result is that no money ever change

Most of this can be gamed, even the $10^6 purchase: a bunch of shell-companies, buying and selling between them, but the net result is that no money ever changes hands. Also, is "250,000 likes" a meaningful metric? Everyone can post a lolcat ;) More importantly: Reed's Law. Assuming I'm "famous" (by whatever metric, let's assume its usefulness), what for do I need a separate system that only works for connecting me to other "famous" people?

padobson 15y ago
Well, this should be used like any other email service. I, myself, have 5 email addresses. One of them I use specifically for things I think will eventually attract spammers. I never read those emails unless I need to change the password on my MySpace account or update my GoDaddy information. So if you're an important person that has accounts with hotmail and ymail and gmail, you could add this to the list and use it specifically to interact with other important people - knowing that your inbox here is never going to have junk in it.
- Piskvorrr 15y ago
  That's sort of my point: what makes me want to communicate specifically with famous people?
  - padobson 15y ago
    Well, here's a user story: You're Kanye West. Lots of other aspiring hip-hop artists want them to know about you because you're Kanye West. As a result, your regular inbox gets 250 emails a day from said hip-hop artists. So if you're Kanye West, you stop using email all together because you can't filter out the noise. You go to this email service, though, and you get 5 emails a day, and they're from Jay-Z, Rihanna, Def Jam Records, Barbara Boxer, and an up-and-coming regional hip-hop artist who sold 12,000 records, has a growing following, and just barely met the standard to gain access to the service. Those emails would be far more useful to Kanye, and he would check that inbox far more often because of it.

padobson 15y ago

Well, this should be used like any other email service. I, myself, have 5 email addresses. One of them I use specifically for things I think will eventually attract spammers. I never read those emails unless I need to change the password on my MySpace account or update my GoDaddy information. So if you're an important person that has accounts with hotmail and ymail and gmail, you could add this to the list and use it specifically to interact with other important people - knowing that your inbox here is never going to have junk in it.

Piskvorrr 15y ago
That's sort of my point: what makes me want to communicate specifically with famous people?
- padobson 15y ago
  Well, here's a user story: You're Kanye West. Lots of other aspiring hip-hop artists want them to know about you because you're Kanye West. As a result, your regular inbox gets 250 emails a day from said hip-hop artists. So if you're Kanye West, you stop using email all together because you can't filter out the noise. You go to this email service, though, and you get 5 emails a day, and they're from Jay-Z, Rihanna, Def Jam Records, Barbara Boxer, and an up-and-coming regional hip-hop artist who sold 12,000 records, has a growing following, and just barely met the standard to gain access to the service. Those emails would be far more useful to Kanye, and he would check that inbox far more often because of it.