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Ask HN: Is “claim your profile” a good strategy?

3 pointsby ParameterOneover 5 years ago
I wanted to get an idea on what the community thinks of the claim your profile strategy for a way to gain user-base. What's good or bad about it?

2 comments

rubidiumover 5 years ago
You mean like what the sketchy reputation websites have? Or dark pattern home listing sites? Or pump and dump academia “social networks”?<p>It’ll burn any goodwill you have in my book.<p>No one wants to know you sucked up info about them and then compiled it all into a shadow profile. And it’s practically blackmail to make them claim it to correct your errors.<p>If you’re in the B2B space it may be different.
robbyaover 5 years ago
I&#x27;m not familiar with that strategy (can you define it?), but I&#x27;d expect that certain strategies work better for some products but poorly for others. What market are you thinking about?