Silicon Shaman wrote: > suppose a company that does paid surveys pays DW for > the right to put up a fancy poll on a public community page, > which the users fill in and in exchange get paid for their > time and effort in points [or drops or whatevers] Of course > the data would be anonymous we'd track who'd > done the poll, but the answers wouldn't be linked to user names. > The consumer survey company would get a simple framework to > 'mine' data within... and without the cost of creating their > own infrastructure. So we could sell the idea to things like > charties or NGO's etc...
I would uncomfortable with any kind of commercial entity being able to buy space to do anything on Dreamwidth. Because as soon as that happens, there's potential for a conflict between the interests of that entity and the interests of the community, and for pressure to be exerted on the site's owners by that conflict. (Also, paid-participation polls are a *terrible* way to mine data. Just the idea makes my inner statistician sad.) love Anna _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
