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Scammers are going to slaughter you. Company: "We're going to cure cancer!" First 20 crowdsourcers, all paid by company: "These guys are totally legit! I vis
by jellicle 15y ago
Scammers are going to slaughter you.
Company: "We're going to cure cancer!"
First 20 crowdsourcers, all paid by company: "These guys are totally legit! I visited their offices! Saw a hamster that was totally cancer-free!"
Next 500 crowdsourcers, not paid by company: "Looks legit! Take our money, please!"
Company founders: {fly to Switzerland in their ROFLcopter, having committed no crime whatsoever}
1000 or 100,000 or 100,000,000 eyes looking at a subject shallowly are not a replacement for one set of eyes looking at a subject deeply. The great thing is, the marks won't even realize they've been scammed for years or perhaps ever, due to the long delay between providing money and expecting results.
- wmf 15y agoI think a more subtle approach might work better, like promising a distributed social network written in Rails.