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Why We Love You – aggregate positivity for your friends

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Re: Why We Love You – aggregate positivity for your friends

#11

Post by rfong »

rfong wrote: post #9
chadillac wrote: post #3

I hate to be a Negative Nancy but this is like a cyber bully wet dream. There is no authentication measure to ensure who is who, it gives the user a vested interest in hearing what good things people have to say about them, therefore is basically a point that can be easily leveraged to conduct the most malicious of attacks against someones character and ensure it is seen but more importantly done in a manner to cut v…

Yup. I deliberately didn't implement any authentication because I wanted it to operate more like a Doodle -- a link gets generated for a purpose of no particular celebrity and sent to respondents for low-threshold participation. I think I will lock down submissions on the example page to make this clearer. It's pretty fun for users who are using it for its intended purpose, and not very trollable if you use the defau…

Clarification of analogy: if a doodle link gets posted to an internet forum (as happened with my example page), it will get spammed, but trollbait pages are irrelevant -- pages which are generated for their intended purpose do not run into that problem by virtue of obscurity.

Re: Why We Love You – aggregate positivity for your friends

#12

Post by chadillac »

rfong wrote: post #9
chadillac wrote: post #3

I hate to be a Negative Nancy but this is like a cyber bully wet dream. There is no authentication measure to ensure who is who, it gives the user a vested interest in hearing what good things people have to say about them, therefore is basically a point that can be easily leveraged to conduct the most malicious of attacks against someones character and ensure it is seen but more importantly done in a manner to cut v…

Yup. I deliberately didn't implement any authentication because I wanted it to operate more like a Doodle -- a link gets generated for a purpose of no particular celebrity and sent to respondents for low-threshold participation. I think I will lock down submissions on the example page to make this clearer. It's pretty fun for users who are using it for its intended purpose, and not very trollable if you use the defau…

I get that, but let's say I'm fishing_for_compliments44 and I generate my link.

I think go to facebook and say "Hey guys! Let me know what you think! [my link]". Now pseudo_friend21 clicks the link and see's they can say whatever they want.

"You're fat and stupid, go die in a fire" - dead_mom_1991

"Take your mom's advice, please!" - boyfriends_sister13

"Hey guys, don't be so hard on her... she IS mentally retarded after all! lol" - long_time_friend19

So now a single user has launched 3 personal attacks that will cause this person a good bit of personal anguish when they stir up those emotions.

1. your mom is dead, let's be reminded of that

2. let's start a fight with your love interest, because his sister is mean

3. I haven't talked to that friend in a while... but NOW I know how they fell about me.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, if pseudo_friend21 sends the link posted to mortal_enemy18 then the proverbial shit will hit the proverbial fan.

edit: good rule to remember when building systems like this. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19

Re: Why We Love You – aggregate positivity for your friends

#14

Post by chadillac »

rfong wrote: post #11
rfong wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. I deliberately didn't implement any authentication because I wanted it to operate more like a Doodle -- a link gets generated for a purpose of no particular celebrity and sent to respondents for low-threshold participation. I think I will lock down submissions on the example page to make this clearer. It's pretty fun for users who are using it for its intended purpose, and not very trollable if you use the defau…

Clarification of analogy: if a doodle link gets posted to an internet forum (as happened with my example page), it will get spammed, but trollbait pages are irrelevant -- pages which are generated for their intended purpose do not run into that problem by virtue of obscurity.

See my example reply above.

Re: Why We Love You – aggregate positivity for your friends

#17

Post by rfong »

chadillac wrote: post #12
rfong wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. I deliberately didn't implement any authentication because I wanted it to operate more like a Doodle -- a link gets generated for a purpose of no particular celebrity and sent to respondents for low-threshold participation. I think I will lock down submissions on the example page to make this clearer. It's pretty fun for users who are using it for its intended purpose, and not very trollable if you use the defau…

I get that, but let's say I'm fishing_for_compliments44 and I generate my link. I think go to facebook and say "Hey guys! Let me know what you think! [my link]". Now pseudo_friend21 clicks the link and see's they can say whatever they want. "You're fat and stupid, go die in a fire" - dead_mom_1991 "Take your mom's advice, please!" - boyfriends_sister13 "Hey guys, don't be so hard on her... she IS mentally retarded af…

Ahh I see, fishing for compliments is definitely a bad use case that's hard to circumvent. Any ideas? I attempt to subtly discourage narcissistic submissions in the prompts but people will probably still do it.

Re: Why We Love You – aggregate positivity for your friends

#20

Post by emsasi »

Fun idea--wondering if there are better (more important, more purposeful) ways to use it that to pass out complements. As it is, how long will people be interested in "loving" on each other?

The site has me thinking about aggregating other input info from the internet...

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