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Using Your Users as a Threat

September 3, 2005


Let’s say there is a great cause that pretty much any sane person would support. It’s an urgent cause, in many ways. And most people have done certain things to support it. You see a person who has done some things for it through their website, but not quite enough for your personal liking. You’d like them to run ads here, ad links here on their own website. Would you use your users as a threat? i.e. post something to your users telling this person to do this or that or else – you’ll sick your users on them? Would you?

I wouldn’t.

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