Ask HN: Is “claim your profile” a good strategy? 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? |
Ask HN: Is “claim your profile” a good strategy? 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? |
It’ll burn any goodwill you have in my book.
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.
If you’re in the B2B space it may be different.