Art and Fear -
A good book about the internal and external challenges to making art, along with the rewards.
quote [ OMG it's like quizzes and like they're so awesome and like and like like. ]
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steele said @ 3:14pm GMT on 14th September
Yeah, eventually I'm going to get a decent quiz suggestion algorithm working. Like I said, right now I'm starting it off with the popular stuff because in order surpass the traffic saturation thresholds necessary to maintain a viral state for this work you gotta cater to people that do do those sorts of quizzes. Eventually I'll have some less Cosmo stuff in there, but it's the cosmo stuff the attracts the people that do and share the quizzes in the first place. Once they become regular visitors I'll have the freedom to introduce them to things outside their comfort zone.
Trust me, not the first site I'm bringing viral. I know a lot of people here aren't going to be into the stuff that's on there, but it'll be a lot easier if I have the help of the few people that might be down for lowering their standards for a few minutes. It'll go viral one way or the other. On my own, it might take a year. With help, perhaps a few months.
steele said @ 3:15pm GMT on 14th September
Yeah, eventually I'm going to get a decent quiz suggestion algorithm working. Like I said, right now I'm starting it off with the popular stuff because in order surpass the traffic saturation thresholds necessary to maintain a viral state for this to work you gotta cater to people that do do (doodoo!) those sorts of quizzes. Eventually I'll have some less Cosmo stuff in there, but it's the cosmo stuff the attracts the people that do and share the quizzes in the first place. Once they become regular visitors I'll have the freedom to introduce them to things outside their comfort zone.
Trust me, not the first site I'm bringing viral. I know a lot of people here aren't going to be into the stuff that's on there, but it'll be a lot easier if I have the help of the few people that might be down for lowering their standards for a few minutes. It'll go viral one way or the other. On my own, it might take a year. With help, perhaps a few months.
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steele said @ 3:14pm GMT on 14th September
Yeah, eventually I'm going to get a decent quiz suggestion algorithm working. Like I said, right now I'm starting it off with the popular stuff because in order surpass the traffic saturation thresholds necessary to maintain a viral state for this to work you gotta cater to people that do do (doodoo!) those sorts of quizzes. Eventually I'll have some less Cosmo stuff in there, but it's the cosmo stuff the attracts the people that do and share the quizzes in the first place. Once they become regular visitors I'll have the freedom to introduce them to things outside their comfort zone.
Trust me, not the first site I'm bringing viral. I know a lot of people here aren't going to be into the stuff that's on there, but it'll be a lot easier if I have the help of the few people that might be down for lowering their standards for a few minutes. It'll go viral one way or the other. On my own, it might take a year. With help, perhaps a few months.
I'm starting excitelike off with an array of pop style quizzes at the moment but eventually hope to branch them off into somewhat intellectual stuff. Basically take tests from college textbooks and turn them into popular quizzes just to get people thinking. If we're lucky once the site really gets going it will make a few bucks a day that I can put towards getting SE onto amazon's cloud service so things will be a bit more stable and we'll have the resources to do some of the cool stuff (XP, achievements, etc) I've been playing around with in the background, but haven't brought live because they're too resource intensive.
This is basically a call out for people to play around with site, kind of beta test things, and if you guys are down, help kickstart the viral process by sharing stuff on social networks you may be involved with. If anyone has suggestions for quizzes that you think might go over well with their friends, or stuff you might like to see, I'm open to suggestion and would appreciate it. Thank you.