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What if following someone meant you would get a follow email of their choosing #293

Open leppert opened 12 years ago

leppert commented 12 years ago

So John follows Stacy.

It could be good or bad, who knows, but what if there was an attention expense to following someone.

thebyrd commented 12 years ago

I would put a button in the email Stacey gets from John that allows her to revoke his ability to send these custom emails forever. So in theory spammers can only do it once or twice.

leppert commented 12 years ago

@davidbyrd11 I think you have this backward. As it stands right now, with the standard follow emails you see on Twitter, Facebook, et al, the power is in the hands of the spammers. It's the passive party who is affected by the action of the initiator. This reverses that dynamic so that the initiator is the one who gets the email.

What are you seeing as the spam potential?

thebyrd commented 12 years ago

I could write a bash command that follows everyone on reading and tells them to click on some link. On Sep 20, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Greg Leppert wrote:

@davidbyrd11 I think you have this backward. As it stands right now, with the standard follow emails you see on Twitter, Facebook, et al, the power is in the hand of the spammers. It's the passive party is affected by the action of the initiator. This reverses that dynamic so that the initiator is the one who gets the email.

What are you seeing as the spam potential?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

leppert commented 12 years ago

This is proposing that YOU would be the one who would get all of this email.

On Sep 20, 2012, at 4:30 PM, David Byrd notifications@github.com wrote:

I could write a bash command that follows everyone on reading and tells them to click on some link. On Sep 20, 2012, at 4:28 PM, Greg Leppert wrote:

@davidbyrd11 I think you have this backward. As it stands right now, with the standard follow emails you see on Twitter, Facebook, et al, the power is in the hand of the spammers. It's the passive party is affected by the action of the initiator. This reverses that dynamic so that the initiator is the one who gets the email.

What are you seeing as the spam potential?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

thebyrd commented 12 years ago

O, my bad. I get it now