Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture

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by ericwan • 18 years ago

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mixmax• 18 years ago

We used to use a picture of a monkey.

Worked great as well.

Olgaar• 18 years ago

But I would like the monkey!

Electro• 18 years ago

Perhaps there was many creationists on his website, they hate the monkeys.

dmoney• 18 years ago

A site I was on a while back used pictures of baboons. From behind.

ericwan• 18 years ago

Someone may still like a monkey, but no one would like Cheney.

pibefision• 18 years ago

This is not a great idea. There are many people out there googling your name, and they will think that you choose that avatar.

robg• 18 years ago

Thus the incentive to change it. I like it!

bayareaguy• 18 years ago

I get incensed when I see incenting used this way.

kul• 18 years ago

incenting is a word? i always thought it was incentivizing. in any case, both are ugly words.

jamesbritt• 18 years ago

I guess "motivating" would be too obvious.

aston• 18 years ago

It's not really a word, but it basically is. Just like irregardless.

Language moves on, no matter how much it annoys us.

zach• 18 years ago

It's a perfectly normal word, if you talk like this:

"Once you incent knowledge workers to leverage their core competencies, you empower them to impact the bottom line."

ivankirigin• 18 years ago

Maybe it's a pun. Pissing users off with their profile pic to make them want to change it.

mechanical_fish• 18 years ago

Given that the more established alternative is incentivize, which is at least 50% more awful, I welcome this newly abbreviated word.

vixen99• 18 years ago

You mean it could be as much as 60% more awful?

henning• 18 years ago

Or if your typical user is a MySpace retard, your site will become known as that weird place where everyone has a boner for Dick Cheney.

staunch• 18 years ago

Republicans use social networks too. The challenge would be to come up with some universally disliked person to use. I nominate Mr. Bean and Peewee Herman.

rms• 18 years ago

There aren't very many Republicans that still like Bush and Cheney...

Shooter• 18 years ago

I like Mr. Bean...and Herman was okay in the Cheech and Chong movie, at least. I think they should use Emperor Palpatine...oh, wait, they're using Cheney? Nevermind.

omakase• 18 years ago

i understand the problem, but shouldn't the incentive be a service users _want_ to use and share with their friends?

mwooller• 18 years ago

Inciting the user to check for words that do not exist.

samueladam• 18 years ago

I have a better rule.

People with pictures can see other profiles pictures otherwise they get a message explaining the rule.

Incenting The User To Put Up A Profile Picture

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