●● IRC: #boycottnovell-social @ FreeNode: Monday, December 07, 2020 ●●

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● Dec 07
[08:50]	schestowitz	if inc
[08:50]	schestowitz	> There is a psychology in all this. It's the same psychology as "SALE!
[08:50]	schestowitz	> Only this week!" or "Limited Edition release" or "While supplies last!"
[08:50]	schestowitz	> 
[08:50]	schestowitz	> These things drive people to act more quickly (in larger numbers) so
[08:50]	schestowitz	> that they don't miss out. It's good old FOMO (nothing new at all) and as
[08:50]	schestowitz	> long as it toys with people's psychology to increase participation,
[08:50]	schestowitz	> people are doing to go LIVE as a way of increasing interest-- for better
[08:51]	schestowitz	> or worse. Plus "realtime" adds a feeling of something being "real", it's
[08:51]	schestowitz	> more "real" to people, more exciting. It's just human psychology-- like
[08:51]	schestowitz	> marketing in general. But it works, pretty reliably, so people use it.
[08:51]	schestowitz	> 
[08:51]	schestowitz	> schestowitz
[08:51]	schestowitz	> I don't get those things
[08:51]	schestowitz	> 
[08:51]	schestowitz	> schestowitz
[08:51]	schestowitz	> they call those "events"
[08:51]	schestowitz	> 
[08:51]	schestowitz	> schestowitz
[08:51]	schestowitz	> but what advantage over static, archived copies?
[08:51]	schestowitz	> 
[08:51]	schestowitz	> schestowitz
[08:51]	schestowitz	> except Q&A
[08:51]	schestowitz	> 
[08:51]	schestowitz	> schestowitz
[08:51]	schestowitz	> you can just watch or binge a bunch of popular old talks
[08:51]	schestowitz	> 
[08:51]	schestowitz	> schestowitz
[08:51]	schestowitz	> without it being "live"
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