Idea Is Queen!

Actually, I believe we all are anti-spammers. We hate spams. We want to delete spam at once. We want to declare email-bankruptcy….

Wait wait wait, wait a second, have you ever heard of the line: “If you can’t defeat you enemy, then make fun out of them?” (of course you never, because I coined it 1 minute ago. )

So, today’s idea - A website where you can dump spams which you think creative/funny/weird/sucked/etc.

Sounds strange? How does it work? Simply put, whenever you “accidentally ” stumble upon a spam, no matter in your mailbox or on web pages, simply “bookmark” it on the proposed site. If you are in a good mood, you can give it a little description, such as where you step on the mine, or how sucked it is. If you are angry at this annoying spam, just tag it with “filthy” key words! However these words should be acceptable in blogosphere de facto, to show how angry you are at it while avioding issues like personal attacks.

Next to the tag line are two columns, thumbs-up and thumbs-down. In thumbs-up section, you score the spam from zero 1 to 10, and tell everyone what appeared on the spam make you lol. The jingle? Or the falling-down-bikini-model image? Similarly, in the thumbs-down section, you assign it with a score from -1 to -10, and tell others specifically what on the content make you sick.

Ok, now, anyone visiting the front page will see a spam-version of hot-or-not, which means you will be shown a series of snapshots of spam-pages bookmarked on the site. Before you go to the next spam, you can score the present one from -10 to +10, and if you want more info about it, click the “sucks me more” button, which will lead you to the detailed-info page made by the original submitter. You can also add your opinion/review by following the format accordingly.

By the way, a bonus feature - you can even “share” the most sh*tish spam you discover on the site to your friend (or rival)! Play prank on those you don’t like (or like)! i.e. Bosses

Finally, when the score of a certain spam reaches a threshold, say +1000 or -1000, the site will (manually, if no info of source provided) mail the result to the original company (probably to their marketing department, or even VP of marketing.) to show them what a great/lousy job they have done! Not bad, right? An anti-spammers-community suddenly transforms into a practical marketing research group, offering valuable feedbacks! What’s more, during the process of filtering “good” spams from “bad” ones, users have lots of fun, work off their angers, and generate value.

Oh, don’t forget the original submitters, when their shared spams reach the threshold, the marketing companies should thank and reward him/her.

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