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by jackpirate
5421 days ago
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I really like the idea of modeling viral content after real epidemics. Some questions: What's the advantage of a limited preview? Do you plan to gain critical mass, say in Washington, then open it up only there? Similar to a facebook style growth pattern. Why did you decide no downvote? Every social bookmarking site I can think of has the option. I don't like the fact that I can't see stuff for my area without logging in. I usually lurk for a long time at a site before I decide to join and contribute. Why don't you just grab my location from my IP address? Why do I have to turn it on in FireFox? |
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Preview? To gain critical mass around an area was our initial intention. By the way, we are not very restrictive at the moment, as long as you request, we will give you a preview invitation!
Downvote? To stay truthful to the real-world model, we hope to let things die down quietly. In the next version we will be implementing flagging, and maybe consider downvote as needed. This is a good point!
See more before joining? This is a chicken-egg problem for us now: without large adoption, our content is suboptimal so we are reluctant to open up the experience to everyone; but most people want to see more before contributing...
So at the current stage, we are hoping to target the early-adopter crowd (for example, who would wait 6 hours in the line to get the first iPad), then open it up! I would love to get some discussion around this if others would like to chime in!
Get location from IP? Good idea, we should give it a try! However, we probably will stick to browser's native support - I think this is cool and might be the future, no? :)