Comment on Facebook Will Let People You Don't Know Message Your Inbox For $1parentComments−lukasb13ySet caps on spam and auction the space, then. If the price of getting to your inbox is $10 people will have to have a really good reason for getting in touch.I'm usually anti-FB but I'm curious to see where this goes.−gcr13yOr, set the price to be a function of the number of messages the sender sent per day.E.g. If I've sent `s` messages per day averaged over the last N days, the next message that I send should cost (rounded to the nearest penny): 1.01^(s-1) That'll put a damper on it right quick. Sending 100 messages will cost $168.79, sending 200 will cost $625.35.−loceng13yI don't see this happening, as Facebook has no trouble abusing the userbase.
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Set caps on spam and auction the space, then. If the price of getting to your inbox is $10 people will have to have a really good reason for getting in touch.
I'm usually anti-FB but I'm curious to see where this goes.
Or, set the price to be a function of the number of messages the sender sent per day.
E.g. If I've sent `s` messages per day averaged over the last N days, the next message that I send should cost (rounded to the nearest penny):
That'll put a damper on it right quick. Sending 100 messages will cost $168.79, sending 200 will cost $625.35.I don't see this happening, as Facebook has no trouble abusing the userbase.