Really nifty idea. What I'd like to see is an option to not automatically unfollow the person after the day that you can set on this site - maybe the person who won that day is really interesting!
isn't it kind of self sorting though? If you were really interesting, you probably already would have a lot of followers, and therefore would have no need to join this sight to get more.
Either you don't know what "idiosyncratic" means, or I don't know why those two sentences are related. Yes, it combines the uniquely human desire for fame with a lottery system. Why is that stupid? Is the desire for fame automatically stupid?
Because it often means that you're onto something. Polarized opinions are, by definition, extreme, and people that are really, really passionate about your project are often worth the cost of having the same number of people hate it.
Obviously there are limits to that idea- if people hate it because they find it offensive then you might be in trouble. But if they hate it because they think it's stupid (as here), they'll likely just dismiss it and ignore it.
Because there is no such thing as bad PR. People on the edges of the spectrum are vocal, and that translates to eyeballs either for the cool factor of the WTF factor. Either way you win. :-)
He was being smart-alecky. He feels very strongly in one direction about a concept that means "divide or cause to divide into two sharply contrasting groups or sets of opinions or beliefs."
Nice. I made this exact same concept almost a year ago, too. It was fun to code and watch to see who randomly won. These guys definitely have a little bit better Photoshop skills than I do, though. :) I called mine Crowdwoo.
This is pretty awesome! Simple silly question -- if you're already following the winner before they win, they won't be unfollowed when their day's up, right?
Cool, idea, but I think it'd work better with longer time periods, like one drawing per week. Once it loses it's novelty, nobody is going to be gunning to get the title of "295th play-fame.com winner".
Plus, accumulating a weeks worth of followers seems to be (more than linearly) a better prize.
This sounds like it's ripe for spammers, and given the recent article on the Pinterest spammer, and the current winner tweeting about her "lipob fat loss shots", I don't think it will get any traction. (Or at least it won't be abused).
Do you need to have a minimum of followers before "trying out" ? To avoid people submitting a lot of empty profile just to maximize their chance of being picked up?
Hmmm that would not prevent every attemps (someone really motivated could always game the system) but at least prevent someone losing 30minutes to creates dummy accounts and easily obtain one of the first fames (when going with 100 000 users it will be harder).
And making fake accounts all following each other can be detected easily, especially if they all join the lottery
I'm just telling you that trying to do this with the follow/unfollow API is likely going to end in tears and that the retweet style will have the same effect.
But wouldn't that get a lot of people's accounts banned? If I remember right (from some time ago) you couldn't follow/unfollow too many people all the time, or you'd get banned.
I think the actual fun in the game will be watching people freak out when they win. I don't really care if I win, but I will enjoy watching random people do unusual things with their fame
