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Fame Game Hopes To Make You Internet Famous for a Day
- OzzyB 15y agoI have a big soft spot for concepts like this -- bravo!
- orta 15y agoI think this is a great idea, it adds a little hint of surprise to your twitter stream.
- wiradikusuma 15y agoHow to make sure everyone plays fairly? E.g. I can cut the ties once I'm famous.
- karamazov 15y agoThat scenario isn't a problem - if everyone quit after achieving fame, they'd lose one user per day.
- k0mplex 15y agoI think the actual fun in the game will be watching people freak out when they win. I don't really care if I win, but I will enjoy watching random people do unusual things with their fame
- lifeformed 15y agoCool, idea, but I think it'd work better with longer time periods, like one drawing per week. Once it loses it's novelty, nobody is going to be gunning to get the title of "295th play-fame.com winner". Plus, accumulating a weeks worth of followers seems to be (more than linearly) a better prize.
- eurleif 15y ago>Once it loses it's novelty, nobody is going to be gunning to get the title of "295th play-fame.com winner". Novelty or not, the site will keep adding users over those 259 rounds, and all those followers will have value, even if it's just for a day.
- Karunamon 15y agoReally nifty idea. What I'd like to see is an option to not automatically unfollow the person after the day that you can set on this site - maybe the person who won that day is really interesting!
- k0mplex 15y agogood idea. will add to future releases.
- michael_fine 15y agoisn't it kind of self sorting though? If you were really interesting, you probably already would have a lot of followers, and therefore would have no need to join this sight to get more.
- CrazedGeek 15y agoThis is pretty awesome! Simple silly question -- if you're already following the winner before they win, they won't be unfollowed when their day's up, right?
- geekforbrains 15y agoRight, only followers as the result of winning unfollow automatically the next day.
- ceejayoz 15y agoI'd suggest a button on the site along the lines of "I like today's winner, don't make me unfollow them tomorrow".
- bhartzer 15y agoGreat idea. Putting a new twist (i.e., twitter) on an old, OLD concept (like iWannaBeFamous.com started over 10 years ago) is a good thing. I'd like to see this up to 100,000 or more followers to really give the featured person some real fame.
- kitsune_ 15y agoThis is the stupidest shit I've ever heard of. Combining humanity's idiosyncratic desire for fame with a lottery system.
- k0mplex 15y agoi love ideas that are polarizing
- sheraz 15y agocan you expand on why you do?
- untog 15y agoBecause it often means that you're onto something. Polarized opinions are, by definition, extreme, and people that are really, really passionate about your project are often worth the cost of having the same number of people hate it. Obviously there are limits to that idea- if people hate it because they find it offensive then you might be in trouble. But if they hate it because they think it's stupid (as here), they'll likely just dismiss it and ignore it.
- sheraz 15y agoI'll reply to this by answering my own question: Because there is no such thing as bad PR. People on the edges of the spectrum are vocal, and that translates to eyeballs either for the cool factor of the WTF factor. Either way you win. :-)
- coderdude 15y agoHe was being smart-alecky. He feels very strongly in one direction about a concept that means "divide or cause to divide into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs."
- nollidge 15y agoEither you don't know what "idiosyncratic" means, or I don't know why those two sentences are related. Yes, it combines the uniquely human desire for fame with a lottery system. Why is that stupid? Is the desire for fame automatically stupid?
- koopajah 15y agoDo you need to have a minimum of followers before "trying out" ? To avoid people submitting a lot of empty profile just to maximize their chance of being picked up?
- TylerE 15y agoWould that really help? If you're going that far couldn't you just make all of your sockpuppets follow each other?
- koopajah 15y agoHmmm that would not prevent every attemps (someone really motivated could always game the system) but at least prevent someone losing 30minutes to creates dummy accounts and easily obtain one of the first fames (when going with 100 000 users it will be harder). And making fake accounts all following each other can be detected easily, especially if they all join the lottery
- paraschopra 15y agoWhy, god, I ask Why?
- k0mplex 15y agothat reaction is why
- tibbon 15y agoThat's... cute. But wouldn't that get a lot of people's accounts banned? If I remember right (from some time ago) you couldn't follow/unfollow too many people all the time, or you'd get banned.
- duxup 15y agoSilly but it isn't as if mass attention is logically or productively focused. Why not just go randomly? ;)
- rduchnik 15y agoI think it's genius way to get people to follow you, they will rack up followers with this over time.
- __abc 15y agoI signed up just to see who gets picked and, if I like what they have to say, etc. I know who I know. Finding people who I don't know, that might be interesting, is becoming difficult.
- kirubakaran 15y agoI like the idea. But why unfollow the next day? At least this should be optional with default set to "don't unfollow".
- untog 15y agoI, for one, would only use this if unfollow was set- in fact, it was my #1 concern when I first arrived at the page.
- ceejayoz 15y ago> But why unfollow the next day? That's the main thing that stops this from being just another of the "sign up and maybe get lots of followers" scam sites. You discover a new person each day, but that person's going to have to be pretty interesting that day to make you remember to follow them tomorrow.
- jonbro 15y agoyou have to email them to remove yourself? Really? It seems like you could have some type of removal thing.
- spullara 15y agoYou should really just have everyone follow the @fame account and then retweet the winners tweets for the day.
- xymostech 15y ago... But then they wouldn't have a lot of followers. Then, only @fame would have a lot of followers. Note the goal of "YOU'RE NOW PLAYING TO WIN 1,652 FOLLOWERS" not "YOU'RE NOW PLAYING TO SEND TWEETS TO 1,652 PEOPLE".
- spullara 15y agoI'm just telling you that trying to do this with the follow/unfollow API is likely going to end in tears and that the retweet style will have the same effect.
- mhp 15y agoThis sounds like it's ripe for spammers, and given the recent article on the Pinterest spammer, and the current winner tweeting about her "lipob fat loss shots", I don't think it will get any traction. (Or at least it won't be abused).
- k0mplex 15y agoabusers are instantly removed/banned.
- Skywing 15y agoNice. I made this exact same concept almost a year ago, too. It was fun to code and watch to see who randomly won. These guys definitely have a little bit better Photoshop skills than I do, though. :) I called mine Crowdwoo. Here is my post about mine: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2576392 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2576392 and my source code for it, https://github.com/ryancole/crowdwoo.com https://github.com/ryancole/crowdwoo.com and with a time machine snapshot to see what it looked like: http://web.archive.org/web/20110708205146/http://crowdwoo.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20110708205146/http://crowdwoo.co... and finally a link to the original idea source, compliments of Dave Winer: http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop.html http://scripting.com/stories/2011/05/15/socialMediaBubblePop...
- dfriedmn 15y agogenius strikes again!
- loceng 15y agoI like this. Has potential. Good luck. :)