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I'm trying a new idea on Referly to help unlock awesome recommendations inside of community sites and turn them into storefronts. What I'd really like is feedb
by dmor 14y ago
I'm trying a new idea on Referly to help unlock awesome recommendations inside of community sites and turn them into storefronts. What I'd really like is feedback on whether you'd be interested in Reddit doing this themselves? If you'd shop a store like this of the best curated stuff recommended by Redditors I will pitch the idea to them.
And before you kill me for the affiliate links, the commission for every purchase through this profile goes to Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Update: I wrote a more complete blog post on my thoughts for creating this: http://refer.ly/blog/turning-recommendations-from-the-reddit-community-into-a-store/ http://refer.ly/blog/turning-recommendations-from-the-reddit...
- rhizome 14y agoAre you "JakeGyllenhaal" on Reddit?
- dmor 14y agoI wish
- fudged71 14y agoIt's a fantastic idea, as there is so much valuable content in many of these massive reddit threads; very easy to filter and pull out good quotes. I'm glad that you're donating the proceeds to the EFF! Cheers
- intended 14y agoThats an interesting idea - I wonder if people would be more willing to accept Facebook's "social advertising" if the proceeds of their advertising went to the charity of their choice? I don't mind being a supporter for something I like using, if the proceeds of that go to support a cause that I think makes the world better. At least that idea seems more likely to get over the acceptability hump --- Course then that would lead to all sorts of people coming up with charities just to milk the idea. And then having sales people-charities-company incompatibility.
- fudged71 14y agoWhat's great about Amazon referrals for charity is that it takes no effort to view their link, and you don't have to worry about the cookie, and your purchase doesn't change.
- ananddass 14y agoHaving Reddit do it themselves may increase the authenticity of the recommendations. Also you might want to look into subreddits like Redditgifts. As noted before, there is a lot of valuable data hidden in those conversations.
- dmor 14y agoYeah, I am thinking we might be able to contribute something attractive and useful to the community. I just read up on their licensing and we'll see where it goes. http://www.reddit.com/help/licensing http://www.reddit.com/help/licensing For all I care Reddit can have all the money, or donate it to EFF like we're doing. I just want to show people the amazing stuff that is locked up in forums (and that Referly is a cool way to build/moderate/curate it)!
- franze 14y agothe refer.ly blog and all blog posts are set to "noindex, nofollow" via the robots meta tag?
- dmor 14y agoeffing wordpress settings... yes, fixing