Interesting Links for 24-03-2021

[andrewducker]

Amazon sell sex toys. If your affiliate links to them are from a site with adult content then they'll drop you and keep the money you earned

(tags:Amazon sextoys OhForFucksSake )

Chances of eliminating Covid from UK or around the world 'close to zero'

(tags:pandemic thefuture )

One of the world's largest cargo ships is stuck blocking the Suez Canal

(tags:canal shipping epicfail )

UK seeks to drill more oil and gas from North Sea

(tags:oil gas UK globalwarming Doom )

How Penny Arcade manages PAX tickets - and why your idea to fix them won't work

(tags:tickets pennyarcade )

Boris Johnson faces barrage of criticism for claiming 'greed' is behind Covid vaccine success

(tags:vaccine UK BorisJohnson conservatives )

Unpaid environmental damages from fossil fuels are a $600B annual subsidy

(tags:environment usa electricity energy subsidies )

Comments

Re: Anti-scapling

[danieldwilliam]

Conversely it rewards long-term, loyal participants and builds a community. Scalping on the other hand allows people to buy their way to the front of the queue.

Re: Anti-scapling

[jducoeur]

Sure, but the article repeatedly emphasizes that scalpers are a problem, but still a small minority of ticket sales. For everybody else, it would essentially entrench a lot of legacy power among the older members, essentially blocking younger (and typically more passionate) potential members, which is usually disastrous for any organization in the long run. It only takes a few years to breed a generation gap that you can never entirely recover from. (I am in multiple geek organizations that have made variations of this mistake.)

Also, it would breed a whole different flavor of scalping, as folks with legacy power discover that their ticket is worth that much money. So as people become less interested, they keep buying their ticket, and selling it on as essentially small-scale scalping.

Re: Anti-scapling

[danieldwilliam]

Yeah, I see that.