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by adyus 5478 days ago
Instead of relying on users downloading the app, and annoying their seatmates, here's another idea. Since you're relying on the cinemas' cooperation anyway, why not sell them a button to be installed under each armrest? The way to prevent abuse would be for an attendant to quietly come in and witness the disturbance, then act upon it or simply kick out the abuser at the next false-alarm buzz.
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>>>Since you're relying on the cinemas' cooperation anyway, why not sell them a button to be installed under each armrest?<<< Seems to me that you can have the same effect with Tattlr without having to hard-wire an entire movie theater with additional hardware.

There can be no abuse of the system because the theater will have access to the exact seat positioning of the complainer. Remember, people must check-in in order to use the app.

>>>Instead of relying on users downloading the app, and annoying their seatmates...<<< I'm not sure it'd be that big of an annoyance for seatmates. As I said in a previous comment, users wouldn't be creating an additional disturbance by pulling out their smartphone and using Tattlr, they'd simply be piggybacking on an existing disturbance that created the need for Tattlr in the first place.

Example: Guy talking on the phone in the auditorium. Everyone is distracted by him. You covertly pull out your phone, and with a few screen presses you alert theater staff. Your seatmates will be too annoyed with the guy talking on his phone to be concerned with your antics.

Example 2: The sound in the theater goes haywire or projector goes dim for no apparent reason. You whip out your phone to alert staff with just a few button presses while everyone in the theater grumbles about the horrible sound and/or picture.

In short, you're not the origin of a new annoyance, you're simply piggybacking on the existing annoyance.