misterbwong
Level 2 Member
I was thinking about how MS info is shared the other day and it seems to me that what kills a lot of MS deals isn't really the deal itself. Rather, it's the sudden surge of activity due to tricks being publicized (through blog posts, public tweets, FT threads, etc) and the attention that is garnered that kills deals.
This forum (or MS in general) might benefit from a way to trickle information out to larger audiences so that deals can be prolonged and/or kept alive.
A couple ideas of how this could be implemented:
1. Automated/technological approach - The deal is "deposited" into some sort of system and interested parties sign up for it. The system will determine when to release the information to each person based on a set of rules (lottery system, FIFO, # of posts, etc). Seems like a forum resource with restricted access would work for something like this, though I don't know whether the forum software is extensible enough to accommodate the information release logic.
2. Actual person controlling information flow - The person responsible for sourcing or working through each deal could be the mediator and hand out the information slowly and at their discretion. It seems like this is how things currently run in the FT PM system.
3. ???
What do you guys think? #1 could be simple to build but it depends on what people want out of it.
This forum (or MS in general) might benefit from a way to trickle information out to larger audiences so that deals can be prolonged and/or kept alive.
A couple ideas of how this could be implemented:
1. Automated/technological approach - The deal is "deposited" into some sort of system and interested parties sign up for it. The system will determine when to release the information to each person based on a set of rules (lottery system, FIFO, # of posts, etc). Seems like a forum resource with restricted access would work for something like this, though I don't know whether the forum software is extensible enough to accommodate the information release logic.
2. Actual person controlling information flow - The person responsible for sourcing or working through each deal could be the mediator and hand out the information slowly and at their discretion. It seems like this is how things currently run in the FT PM system.
3. ???
What do you guys think? #1 could be simple to build but it depends on what people want out of it.