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I'm very interested in how this plays out. Right now I add Stackexchange to search queries in Google, precisely because the SEO effects haven't hit. The moral
by mathattack 13y ago
I'm very interested in how this plays out. Right now I add Stackexchange to search queries in Google, precisely because the SEO effects haven't hit.
The morality question may not be so black and white, though. If it's ok to accept goodies to monetize a Klout score, why not for StackExchange? Unfortunately, it only takes a small amount of people doing this for a variety of products to ruin the site.
My impression of this as an outsider hearing only one side of the story is Samsung asked an agency to help get the word out in the tech community. The agency probably knows more about advertising than digital, or views digital advertising as Twitter and Klout. I think their less than subtle approach will backfire.
- icebraining 13y agoThe morality question may not be so black and white, though. If it's ok to accept goodies to monetize a Klout score, why not for StackExchange? By "monetize a Klout score," you mean spam your followers on social networks sites, right? That seems pretty morally clear to me.
- mathattack 13y agoIs it morally clear though? Kim Kardashian gets paid to plug god knows what, and it's not immoral to be a shill. That isn't to say that I would do it. (I won't) But it isn't black and white. It might be a dark gray, but it's still gray.
- icebraining 13y agoKim Kardashian gets paid to plug god knows what, and it's not immoral to be a shill. Thankfully, I wouldn't know what Ms. Kardashian plugs, since I'm not from the US and our regular news coverage doesn't cover such events. But as for shilling not being immoral, I have to say I seriously disagree. Advertising may not be, but shilling certainly is, in my moral code.