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Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by hackernewds »

ldoughty wrote: post #49
revscat wrote: post #16

As someone who is coming to increasingly believe that 99% of the world problems are caused by powers seeking to intentionally divide us one from the other, I cannot tell you how much joy this brings me to see. I wish you great success in this effort, however small it might appear to be in the scheme of things.

I agree so much, but the pessimist in me says that this isn't _really_ free, and I don't want to plug in a cool person's info without knowing who the info is being sold to. If this was publicly available document so I could fill in the missing bits, I'd send a dozen of these tomorrow.

send one to temp mail then copy it. if the privacy policy weren't so lax I'd not share the cynicism with you, but it state it'll be collected and shared

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by thayne »

thepuppet33r wrote: post #5

It's a clever concept, but I'm leery of having someone send a letter on my behalf to someone. You all haven't trademarked the idea, have you? I think I'll just write a few of these up myself and send them out.

Also, I don't actually have a physical mailing addresses for people I would like to send something like this to, like maintainers for my favorite open source projects.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by hackernewds »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #55
rfl890 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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No need to be patronizing. You clearly know what they mean, it’s a term that I’ve definitely seen beyond Reddit.

karma is definitely a reddit term. but besides that, nothing wrong with using reddit

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by rietta »

As a business owner, I can tell you certain letters have a look to them before opened and can trigger anxiety and “heart skip a beat.” A letter looking like its from a law firm is going to trigger concern and even calling an attorney. Not fun to then have the rug pulled out. Reminds me of the terrible pranksters who worry people and then say “it’s just a prank.”

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by thayne »

FloorEgg wrote: post #7
thepuppet33r wrote: post #5

It's a clever concept, but I'm leery of having someone send a letter on my behalf to someone. You all haven't trademarked the idea, have you? I think I'll just write a few of these up myself and send them out.

Trademarked the idea? I don't think that word means what you think it means... I'm not OP, and I'm no lawyer, but I'm sure you're free to try this concept for yourself. Three ways to protect IP Trademark is for logos and names Parents are for methods and inventions Copyright is for works of art and writing They might be able to trademark the phrase "continue and persist", but it's not likely. If they had they would h…

> And it's so far from being patentable I hope I don't have to explain why.

I would say the same thing about a lot of things the USPTO has handed out patents for. At this point, it wouldn't surprise me if someone could obtain a patent for this, if the patent application was written the right way. Whether such a patent would hold up in court is an entirely different question.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by omoikane »

> A official-looking legal letter [...] Surprise someone

Having received actual legal letters before, my personal experience is that I would much rather receive normal looking holiday cards to encourage me in continuing whatever I was doing, rather than being surprised by official-looking letters.

It might be different if this service offered help in other ways, but currently it seems like a practical joke of dubious taste.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by frickinLasers »

MichaelCharles wrote: post #36
royal__ wrote: post #6

Cool idea! It sounds like you're offering it for free, with the option for a donation. How are you going to deal with the influx of what I imagine will be hundreds of free requests? Won't that get pretty expensive fast?

The pessimist in me says this is the regular old "If it's free, then you're the product" situation. This seems like a clever way to collect valid mailing addresses. People are also likely to include personal information in their praise messages, which could be valuable data. Their Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy state they reserve the right to share collected information with service providers, business partn…

The terms look like boilerplate that only addresses "your" data--not the information you enter about the target. If they end up selling the addresses/names/activities of unwilling participants, their "don't sue us" clause from the video may not hold up in court.*

*ianal

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by stogot »

DavidSJ wrote: post #67

On a few occasions I’ve called the phone number on a professional vehicle’s “how’s my driving?” bumper sticker to report the driver for good driving. It’s always a fun experience.

I should start doing this. Fine idea

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by leetcrew »

ada1981 wrote: post #20
dheera wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep. I definitely don't really like friends handing my residential address to third parties to mail me stuff without my consent. They can mail me stuff directly if they want though.

Like sending you gifts via Amazon? Or exposing your address when then send any mail at all? Your address is public record this seems like not something you need to concerned about.

sure, name and address aren't worth much alone. but they get more valuable if you can associate other bits of information with them. surprising insights can be gained by joining a bunch of seemingly innocuous facts about a person. usually this just means they see more relevant ads, but occasionally it leads to being targeted for scams and other nasty things.

the tinfoil hat probably isn't warranted in this case, but as a general principle, I try to let my friends make their own decisions around privacy.

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