Yuwie
Post by: McAsh
When I first heard about Yuwie I smelt a rat. What they say about users creating the content and users earning money for it is all very good, but that’s not what Yuwie is offering. If it were to not include the referral policy it would be but with it no one is going to concentrate on the content when they can just get other people to join it. And surely quite the contrary to encouraging people to create high quality content to attract pageviews it will just create spam.
What do we all think the result of it will be? Most people will not get rich from it, but I’d imagine a few people might. But will it survive? Will it be allowed to survive? Will it burn out once a large number of people have joined.
And above all: is it immoral to join?
October 22nd, 2007 at 5:18 pm
My initial reaction wasis, I’m slightly ashamed to say, “who cares”? If it’s not economically viable it will crash pretty quickly, as it will if it’s full of spam.
I’m not sure if it’s a true pyramid scheme since you don’t have to pay to join. I don’t see any harm in yuwie since, as far as i can see, it doesn’t hurt anyone or take the money. It just looks like another social networking site.
October 31st, 2007 at 10:42 pm
It pays you - my own feeling is that that kind of capitalist incentive will be too much for people to resist, even if they wanted to. But like Aardvark said, the spamming will make sure that it dies out. I still think quality will succeed, especially with the amount of social networking sites trying to make it out there. Seems to me like burning out’s the most likely occurence, and I don’t think they’re going to be shutting it down anytime soon, as it’s not strictly illegal at all. Everyone knows that money is being made and how and why and so forth.