Silicon Shaman <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> One of the big things with companies is getting data on users, taking
> consumer surveys and that kinda stuff.
>
> So here's a thought, suppose a company that does paid surveys pays DW for
> the right to put up a fancy poll on a public community page, which the users
> fill in and in exchange get paid for their time and effort in points [or
[...]
> .Good idea, bad idea? thoughts?
Bad idea, though less bad than many other ideas I've seen
on the web.
Long explanation after I've slept a little, unless somebody
beats me to it...
Short version: AFAICT from feedback to LJ news posts, much
of the *J audience likes feeling like customers and dislikes
feeling like they're the _product_, whether this is a gut
level reaction or fear that if big companies are the customers
then the site is no longer serving its users first ("two
masters" and all that), or both. While your proposal would
not be selling individual "eyeballs" to corporate customers,
it would still a dangerous, or at least suspicion-inducing, step
thataways in the eyes of a significant portion of the user
population.
Or maybe I'm projecting.
Somebody not suffering insomnia wanna try to make what I'm
saying more coherent (and/or show me why I'm wrong)?
-- D. Glenn Arthur Jr.
(dglenn on LJ/IJ/CJ/DJ/GJ/JF/CL/...)
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