Re: [projectvrm] "I am not a brand."

[Alan Patrick < >]

Re:

> Helpful to know what you were responding to: "We can, if we group
> together, fight off the weenuses and hosebags who want to turn the
> Internet into a giant commercial.”

My 2p.....

Getting people to group together is unlikely to work vs a few driven 
people who believe they can make a large return - the paybacks are too 
mismatched.

Plus the evidence on the 'Net to date is that these hosebag tactics do 
seem to work at a higher success rate than the cost of using them, thus 
they will continue to be used.

There is a bigger underlying issue, in that the 'Net promotes "winner 
takes all" markets where the prizes for winning are so huge that they:

(i)  suck in more people than they rationally should (people are always 
overpotimistic about their likelihood of success)
(ii) make those people behave in more outrageous ways to diferentiate 
themselves

What is more likely to work is if the 'Net had some form of feedback 
mechanism to show these people - very clearly, to discourage les autres 
- that what they are doing isn't helping them.

But beware if it shows that it is helping them, which, sadly, I suspect 
it would............

Rgds

Alan