Reply To: Space Fountain

[zapkitty]

Now Lerner-hakase is taunting me… 🙂

Lerner wrote:
FFS has started some competitions and I suggest there be a competition for who can get focus fusion or related subjects on the most discussions. We can give out certificates for getting on 5, 10, 20 forums. We can have special prizes for the most forums in given category—environmental forums, news sites (one comment on New Scientist site probably got us hundreds of new visitors to our website.) We can give extra points for those who get responses to their posts.

Recipe fpr disaster… if not handled correctly.

Forget the contests… you’ll appear to have both co-opted the shill techniques that the plutocrats have adopted and, if things work out with that particular plan as I suspect they will, you’ll have rendered “FoFu’ers” into the new “Paulites” or “Obots” of the blogosphere.

Can forum outreach be done without such drawbacks?

Certainly.

I’ve engaged in a bit of it myself… but placement, timing, and suitability are everything.

More after I finish dinner…