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Wohoo Slovakia! :thumbsup:
 
MWF said:
I just did some checking - it will be a year next Wednesday since the Lieutenant died. Seems his former partner is maintaining his Facebook in his memory - Lord knows someone that awesome deserves to have their memory kept alive.

Still sad that he was only a member here for a short while before his time came. I for one will always remember how much his posts brought a wry smile to my face.
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The lieutenant's post were certainly awesome, that's to be expected from an awesome man. So much so that we gave him his own Honorary category in the FG awards that never happened last year.

he is missed.

on an unrelated note MWF has involuntarily opened the link i needed to start following you lot on facebook. Be very afraid
 
Just learned of a website called "Klout" that supposedly measures your online influence and gives you a single score, if you have a high enough score supposedly people give you free shit.

So this is a great idea for faux-celebrities, like Paris Hilton, and their admirers. Or prostitutes.

But I repeat myself.

Anyway, this site supposedly trawls all public information from social networks to come up with this score, and the only way to opt-out is to sign up for the service, allowing it access to all your social network accounts for "verification" before you can tell them were to stick it. In a recent Wired advertisement article, they claimed that businesses were choosing to not hire perfectly qualified applicants because their "Klout score" was insufficient. :rolleyes:

Of course they only look as social networks, not at forums like FG or even Reddit. They also only look at overall "influence" and not at a level of influence in a particular niche community.

Seriously, fuck everything about this.
 
At least it would weed out an employer that I didn't want to work for.
 
^That pretty much sums up why I have accounts in social networks. Not because I want them, but because apparently I need to be friends with everyone and fuck everything else when looking for a job.
 
Blind_Io said:
Just learned of a website called "Klout" that supposedly measures your online influence and gives you a single score, if you have a high enough score supposedly people give you free shit.

So this is a great idea for faux-celebrities, like Paris Hilton, and their admirers. Or prostitutes.

But I repeat myself.

Anyway, this site supposedly trawls all public information from social networks to come up with this score, and the only way to opt-out is to sign up for the service, allowing it access to all your social network accounts for "verification" before you can tell them were to stick it. In a recent Wired advertisement article, they claimed that businesses were choosing to not hire perfectly qualified applicants because their "Klout score" was insufficient. :rolleyes:

Of course they only look as social networks, not at forums like FG or even Reddit. They also only look at overall "influence" and not at a level of influence in a particular niche community.

Seriously, fuck everything about this.
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My Klout score is 61. Your argument is invalid.
 
Blind_Io said:
In a recent Wired advertisement article, they claimed that businesses were choosing to not hire perfectly qualified applicants because their "Klout score" was insufficient. :rolleyes:
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I read this unbelievably stupid article as well. The only thing to be said in their defense is that the job in the article was an online-related marketing position.

My klout score, by the way, is zero, I presume, as I have neither a Facebook nor Twitter account and other, business-related networks like Academia.edu obviously are not cool enough for klout.

I found the idea of a "normal" hotel checking my klout score before deciding which room I get highly disturbing, as well. In most businesses I deal or have dealt with, money talks, not klout scores...
 
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One step closer to that Brave New World......

They are trying to separate us into castes in preparation.
 
I connected my Facebook account and got 10.

I'm not a social media whore!
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I looked, the article is online:
At the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas last summer, clerks surreptitiously looked up guests? Klout scores as they checked in. Some high scorers received instant room upgrades, sometimes without even being told why. According to Greg Cannon, the Palms? former director of ecommerce, the initiative stirred up tremendous online buzz. He says that before its Klout experiment, the Palms had only the 17th-largest social-networking following among Las Vegas-based hotel-casinos. Afterward, it jumped up to third on Facebook and has one of the highest Klout scores among its peers.
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Two things are worth mentioning here:
1. The person responsible for the described actions no longer has his job ("former director of ecommerce").
2. The "success" of this scheme is not proven by higher bookings, more return customers or something else that's actually economically relevant, but by a higher klout score - which means that this whole klout thing is a self-serving bubble.

Point 2 might well be the reason for 1. Changing guest treatment semi-randomly due to some online score with no apparent revenue gain seems like a good reason for giving a "director of ecommerce" the sack.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/ff_klout/all/1
 
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I'm guessing my score is about epsilon, as I have a Twitter account but only a few dozen people, mainly friends, among my followers. In fact, I make it a point to report accounts that suddenly follow me after a tweet of mine apparently hit one of their keywords for spam.
 
Also got a 10 by connecting only Facebook. That said I do use Facebook due to Family and uni reasons. So I don't know whether this Klout thing is bogus or just gives predetermined scores....
 
Reports are showing up telling me that Donna Summer has died. If it's true that's a shame. It also means I have to brace myself to listen to "On the radio" elenvty million times...on the....radio.
 
Hey, you know what the best part of all this "Brave New World" posturing is?

1.) it's been around for as long as technology has been around
2.) you can opt out of it anytime

Instead of bitching about how Klout is tearing apart the very fabric of society, why not keep living your life without it? I use Klout occasionally, I've gotten free stuff from them, and while I think it's a phantasmagorical vat of silliness that's pure marketing bullshit run arbitrarily by a bunch of hipsters in a trendy Manhattan loft somewhere, I don't care. And I don't lose sleep over it.

P.S: part of my job has to deal with interacting on Twitter. It's not exactly Nobel Prize-winning material, but it's vaguely entertaining. And that makes me a holier-than-thou social media whore and "marketing expert." Shoot me in the face.
 
gaasc said:
on an unrelated note MWF has involuntarily opened the link i needed to start following you lot on facebook. Be very afraid
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I knew there was a reason I do not use FB.... :p :tease:

Blind_Io said:
Just learned of a website called "Klout" that supposedly measures your online influence and gives you a single score, if you have a high enough score supposedly people give you free shit.

So this is a great idea for faux-celebrities, like Paris Hilton, and their admirers. Or prostitutes.

But I repeat myself.

Anyway, this site supposedly trawls all public information from social networks to come up with this score, and the only way to opt-out is to sign up for the service, allowing it access to all your social network accounts for "verification" before you can tell them were to stick it. In a recent Wired advertisement article, they claimed that businesses were choosing to not hire perfectly qualified applicants because their "Klout score" was insufficient. :rolleyes:

Of course they only look as social networks, not at forums like FG or even Reddit. They also only look at overall "influence" and not at a level of influence in a particular niche community.

Seriously, fuck everything about this.
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I did not get a job because I don't have a FB or that other one. Said they could not beleive that with the job I was applying for, that I would not use it to network for both work and leisure...

ashspet said:
At least it would weed out an employer that I didn't want to work for.
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That is how I felt too.

That American Girl said:
So, is it now a challenge to see how low our scores can go? :p
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I am not even going to bother to look, do I win? :p
 
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