Dude, you know realize how much store credit some members would have?

:(

threadless would practicaly be giving away shirts, they'd be making no Revenue at all. with referals and product pics, they're making money, because both require a sale to actually be made.

That's true. But what if we earned 1 credit for even every few hundred we scored? Wouldnt that encourage more people to score designs?

The two ways you get STPs are by taking a photo with a shirt that you bought, right? so threadless is basically getting 15 dollars revenue, when you take that picture, you're getting 1.50 back in store credit. So they have a net gain of about 13.50 cents. with referring someone, the person you're referring only gives you 2 points when they go through a sale, so threadless is still getting money. if they gave us points just for scoring things, and considering the thousands of members there are, they'd be losing ... thousands of dollars. Because literally you can sit down for 30 minutes and run through about 200-300 subs.

People would zip through, scoring without thinking about the design, and with already low scores and the so-called "votards" out in droves, that's definitely not something they need. Also, I don't think there's a real lack of people scoring things.

from a bidness stand point, it makes about as much sense as having a nipple on your forehead.

Yeah, Jones, I've thought the same thing, that those rewards would just cause people to haphazardly score designs. But, couldn't they tally how long a person looks at a design + votes + comments on designs or somehing? And then give a free shirt every 5000 scores or something?

If it was one point for every 50 scores, Threadless would give me $215.28. That's 10+ free shirts. 20+ if I waited for a sale. And I don't even have near as many scores as some people.

nip on the forehead.

gnarly

like dorkman said, i wonder if they could do that? and a free shirt for every 5000 would be more realistic.

I think that it's just a great deal that they give us money off for referring people and posting pictures of ourselves. Why do we have to be so greedy? What other place out there does stuff like that?

no it really wouldn't dude.

haha.

they aren't getting anything for your input, ultimately all the shirts are decided by threadless.

true iPear.

I think the blogging/collaborating on designs is more valuable than just the voting. But there is really no good way to compensate users for that input without screwing themselves.

i agree with ipear and polyester

you best agree with me, yo.

yeah, or he'll take that knife out of the apple and stick it in yours

having scored over 35k subs, i would be rich in street team points.

if this was the case many people might just keeping scoring one number to save time of considering the right score (the faster and more they go throw the more profitable for them)... at the moment people generally score shirts because they are interested in seeing designs and want quality ones (vs. less awesome ones) to get printed... I like it this way

yeah, but threadless could reward people for how long they spend scoring designs (quality scorers, per se), not just a raw number of how many designs they score

Why would they want to do all that though?

They give points because we post pictures, which means we bought a shirt and it helps model the product.

Or we refer people to buy things.

They have enough people scoring. There would be so many ways to cheat the system it would be useless.

alternately they could have a member appreciation prize they give out from time to time to a memebr who spends lots of time carefully scoring designs.. but they do have contests and prizes as it is...

besides, someone would probably just build applets that'd automatically score away at random numbers....it'd be utter chaos

i don't feel like they are jipping me

yeah, as I said earlier, i don't see any way threadless could do this without screwing themselves in the process

besides, the real question is, would this reward really encourage scoring? One free shirt every six months?

I don't think any rewards should be based on number- if any reward were given, it should be based on quality. For instance, if Critiquers or Submitters were given the ability to nominate the most helpful comment they received to be part of a monthly drawing (for points, a shirt, or just being highlighted on the front page, who knows?) it would encourage people to actually comment instead of just clicking "Don't Submit."

Since there'd be only one winner a month (or every quarter or whatever), Threadless could reject any selected nomination that wasn't appropriate and draw again. So it wouldn't be terribly difficult in that sense, the trouble would be implementing the nomination system in the first place.

should be a point or two for every like 10,000

just for fun

and only for those that they know are real accounts

Why don't you try submitting some pictures of you wearing all those t-shirts you own? I did & earned two free shirts, you could earn 3 if you wait for the sales.