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http://play-fame.com is a similar premise for Twitter. As recommendation algorithms and walled gardens fragment and homogenize our private online bubbles, perhaps these "anti-recommendation"/serendipity apps will help broaden people's horizons.
Pretty cool... are you planning to switch from Mailchimp, though? It lists $240/month as the fee for 25K-50K subscribers. I'm curious about the business model behind something like this.
great question. we'd like to. have any ideas for the most inexpensive service? we don't have a business model (and don't plan to serve ads)...we just want to see what happens.
This is not going to end well. Mark my words. Temptation to game an access to a 1 mil opt-in mail list is very real. From auctioning a chance to write, to product placements, to ads, to god knows what else. That's not to get into messages on highly controversial subjects.
If it turns out dull, I'll just unsubscribe (and, if it turns out dull _and_ malicious about not unsubbing, I'll just filter it like all the other spam)
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Hellbanned means the poster sees his own comments as normal, but no one else can see them. Someone who is hellbanned typically does not know they are banned until someone tells them (or they eventually get suspicious of no one commenting on their comments or up/downvoting). Frankly I find the idea of hellbanning childish, but it has a long history on the internet.
You mean for people like Losethos?
Seems like one of the people behind this, joshbegley, is hellbanned on HN. His comments on this page so far are just showing up dead. Any ideas as to why this is? It makes me wonder about entering my email address on his site. Edit: If you don't have showdead on, he says that plus signs are now accepted in email addresses[0], and that they won't be serving ads, and are looking for an inexpensive way to send mail[1].…
Tried to enter an email address with a '+' sign in it: "Email address is invalid". No it's not.
Around 20% of the web still tells me my dan@dangrossman.info e-mail address is invalid. .info domains have been around for 11 years now, and I can't work around these sites by removing a character.
More realistly there will be unmaintained sites running old email validation coed for decades.
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You mean for people like Losethos?
I'm not familiar with Losethos...mind explaining? A particularly egregious user?
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It's not childish, it's used to defeat trolls. If you ban a troll, they'll realize it next time they try to log in and it says "YOU HAVE BEEN BANNED." But if you hellban them, then they'll log in just fine, they'll post just fine... but no one will respond to their posts. Eventually they'll get bored because they can't get a rise out of anyone and they'll leave.
Similarly, some sites use "discouragement," where the site will run fine, but on their machine it'll behave slowly and sometimes fail completely (bad page loads, excessively long waits then nothing happens, etc).